130 BLACK AND WHITE 



Uncle Jecir' insisted my friend, rather nettled, and curious 

 withal, at the old darky's manner. " Well, Mars' Tom," 

 stuttered out the old man, " to tell de hones' truf, we 

 niorerers doan tink de white leddies is so hansum as de 

 brack ones." This Avas a revelation to me, not then un- 

 derstood, but now very clear. 



Our muttons, or lambs, i.e. the Mexican maidens, have 

 been strayed from. Let us return cross-lots to them, and 

 thence along our highwa3\ 



