Dat's been pesterin' de lan',

Den he set down mid de cheerin'

An' de playin' of de ban'.

I was feelin' moughty happy

'Twell I hyeahed somebody speak,

"Well, dat's his side of de bus'ness,

But you wait for Jones nex' week."

BLACK SAMSON OF BRANDYWINE

"In the fight at Brandywine, Black Samson, a giant negro armed with a scythe, sweeps his way through the red ranks...." C. M. Skinner's "Myths and Legends of Our Own Land."

Gray are the pages of record,