DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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We got into that little town--I might jest as<br />
well call it Cottonville--jest about supper time.<br />
Cottonville is a little place of not more'n six hundred<br />
people. I guess four hundred of 'em must be niggers.<br />
After supper we got acquainted with purty<br />
nigh all the prominent citizens in town. They was<br />
friendly with us, and we was friendly with them.<br />
Georgia had jest went fur prohibition a few months<br />
before that, and they hadn't opened up these here<br />
near-beer bar-rooms in the little towns yet, like<br />
they had in Atlanta and the big towns. Georgia<br />
had went prohibition so the niggers couldn't get<br />
whiskey, some said; but others said they didn't<br />
know WHAT its excuse was. Them prominent<br />
citizens was loafing around the hotel and every<br />
now and then inviting each other very mysterious<br />
into a back room that use to be a pool parlour.<br />
They had been several jugs come to town by express<br />
that day. We went back several times ourselves,<br />
and soon began to get along purty well with them<br />
prominent citizens.<br />
Talking about this and that they finally edges<br />
around to the one thing everybody is sure to get<br />
to talking about sooner or later in the South--<br />
niggers. And then they gets to telling us about<br />
this here Bishop Warren I has mentioned.<br />
He was a nigger bishop, Bishop Warren was,<br />
and had a good deal of white blood into him, they<br />
say. An ashy-coloured nigger, with bumps on<br />
his face, fat as a possum, and as cunning as a fox.<br />
He had plenty of brains into his head, too; but his<br />
brains had turned sour in his head the last few<br />
years, and the bishop had crazy streaks running<br />
through his sense now, like fat and lean mixed in a<br />
slab of bacon. He used to be friends with a lot of<br />
big white folks, and the whites depended on him at<br />
one time to preach orderliness and obedience and<br />
agriculture and being in their place to the niggers.<br />
Fur years they thought he preached that-a-way.<br />
He always DID preach that-a-way when any whites<br />
was around, and he set on platforms sometimes<br />
with white preachers, and he got good donations