Dressed perticler, jes’ fu’ you;
Reckon I’d a’ bettah wo’
My ol’ ragged calico.
Aftah all de pains I’s took,
Cain’t you tell me how I look?
Speak up, Ike, an’ ’spress yo’se’f.
—Copyright by Dodd, Mead & Co., and used by arrangement.
WHEN DE CO’N PONE’S HOT
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dey is times in life when Nature