bahl, bawl.
hear it all good, hears everything perfectly.
Play up the music. He almost sings, like this:—
| Play up the music. |
all the better, all the harder.
massoo himself, lifts herself up. "Massoo" is an African word. The hall seems to have a sort of gallery.
t'row down, etc., throws herself down and breaks her neck. They always say to broke.
Dat time de King. The turning of th into a d or nearly a d is characteristic of negro speech. To avoid the tiresomeness of dialect-printing, and for another reason to be mentioned by and by, this is not always indicated. The change is introduced occasionally to remind readers of the right pronunciation.