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Page 96 text:
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Rapahanoc ’Twenty-two So home he goes, and there he gets A pound of snow-white lard, For this will surely make the change For which he tried so hard. He takes the lard and greezes himself That it might make the change, But ivhen he rubs it in his skin The whiteness all does wand. Now Rastus see the grave mistake, ITIiich he has thus done made, By trying to make his dark complexion To a snow-white fade. Then Rastus from the house does hear, A call, tis Rastus, Rastus, Rastus; Tis then and there- he hears the call That is to him disasterous. IF hen to the house he does arrive. This question she does ask him: “Why did ye tak ' dat milk an lard Widout permission asking”? He did not dare to answer her. Nor yet to tell the reason why? He simply stood before her, And gazed into her eyes. She stepped into the bedroom And got a slipper new, And Rastus he began to hope. But, Oh, his hopes were few. The remainder of this story 1 will not relate to you. But Rastus’ pains ivere many A nd his joys very few. There ' s a moral in this story. Which everyone should knoiv — Be satisfied with what you have. And do not wish for more. Composed by —Norman E. Allen. But still he knows that he must go. So to the house he goes To meet An t Dinah face to face, And pay the debt he owes. 92
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Page 95 text:
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’T wenty-two Rastus ’ Experience Rastus was a little boy He had a dark complexion And when he looked into a glass He made a dark reflection. One day while going down the street He saw a little white girl Sa’s Rastus jes to be dat white I ' d gib the ' hole, wide world. Then Rastus to his home does go To see if he might make His color like that little girl s By something he might take. And on the kitchen table He finds into a pan He grabs it up and out the door A lot of nice ivhite buttermilk He goes, just like a flash. The best thing then at hand. For if Ant Dinah catches him There sure will be a clash. He goes into an alley near And there he drinks it down And then he stands before a glass To see the change come round. And low he waits and still he ivaits But low, no change takes place. But on the other hand, he gets Still darker in the face. “Dis here wont do,” poor Rastus sa ' s, T ' se gwin from bad to wuss; I ' ll trise another rim idy I ' d ought have tried at fust. 91
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