DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey

or give anything he can get his Ethiopian grubhooks
on, for something that he thinks is going to
make him more like a white man. Poor devil!
Therefore the millions of Doctor Jackson Anti-
Curl.
"All this Doctor Jackson Anti-Curl has discovered
and thought out and acted upon. If he
had gone just one step farther the Afro-American
brother would have hailed him as a greater man
than Abraham Lincoln, or either of the Washingtons,
George or Booker. It remains for me,
Danny--for US--to carry the torch ahead--to
take up the work where the imagination of Doctor
Jackson Anti-Curl has laid it down."
"How?" asts I.
"WE'LL PUT UP AND SELL A PREPARATION TO TURN THE
NEGROES WHITE!"
THAT was his great idea. He was more excited
over it than I ever seen him before about anything.
It sounded like so easy a way to get rich it made
me wonder why no one had ever done it before,
if it could really be worked. I didn't believe much
it could be worked.
But Doctor Kirby, he says he has begun his
experiments already, with arsenic. Arsenic, he
says, will bleach anything. Only he is kind of
afraid of arsenic, too. If he could only get hold of
something that didn't cost much, and that would
whiten them up fur a little while, he says, it wouldn't
make no difference if they did get black agin.
This here Anti-Curl stuff works like that--it
takes the kinks out fur a little while, and they come
back agin. But that don't seem to hurt the sale
none. It only calls fur MORE of Doctor Jackson's
medicine.
The doctor takes me around to the place he boards
at, and shows me a nigger waiter he has been experimenting
on. He had paid the nigger's fine in a