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JOKES 
 
 FOR 
 
 BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Born under an Eclipse. 
 
 A tfcntlu-nan said the other day to a servant at the hotel wnye us 
 was ht/>ppin, "Bless my soul, Sambo, how black you are; how ji 
 the name of wonder did you get so black?" "Why, look a her*. 
 
 grinning 
 dif> nipper niay be braok^but 
 
 ^ ain't green, no how.' 
 
 811 
 
BLACK JOKES FOB BLUE DEVILS 
 
 A Comblundrum. 
 
 ASS A, Dandy Sam make comblundrum." 
 "Well, what is it?" 
 
 " 'Pose I shoot bullet troo deal board wid aim 
 itol, what else I make beside round hole ? Gib 
 iaa up ? Why, I make a riddle." 
 
 Classical Names* 
 
 "Caesar, go catch my big horse there." 
 
 "Yes sah? What you call he name, sah ?" 
 "Olympus. Don't you know what the poet says about 'high 
 Olympus?' " 
 " I don't know about Hio ; but he limpus 'nuf, dat's for certain." 
 
 The Invention of Ruin. 
 
 E debbel, dey say, long ago had got loose, 
 And popped liis black nose into ebery caboose , 
 To see if dey'd got any meat on dere hooks, 
 Or if he'd a chance to get rid of some cooks. 
 For it has been said, 
 By him dey am bred ; 
 So he thought he might get him some places 
 
 down dere, 
 
 Where de people had noting but wool for derc 
 hair. 
 
 (Chorus) Very rum, very rum. 
 
 Old Osesar Augustus had made his pot hot, 
 Tho' for dinner he'd noting but horminy got; 
 So de debble popped in, and just taking a seat, 
 He pulled from his pocket a bran new receipt 
 
 But Caesar looked pale, 
 
 As he saw his long tail : 
 
 So he stirred up his broth, and he chattered wid 
 Fer he knew dat de debble intended a bite. 
 
 Very rum I 
 
 Old cloven-foot say dat old Caesar was sly, 
 So he tuk up a sugar-cane standing just by, 
 And with it he stirred up de water so well, 
 Dat it bubbled an' fumed wid a beautiful smell 
 
 So sweet did it come, 
 
 Dat Caesar cried rum : 
 
 It was rum's fust brewing, and Caesar had him soon, 
 Was lapping de broth wid a berry long spoon. 
 
 Very rum I 
 
BLACK JOKES FOji BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Damp-meetin' to find out. 1'se ben to plenty ob dem ar' and nebbei 
 tould quite see clar. Tears like dey talk about eberytinj- else mor'n 
 ley does 'bout dat. Dere's de Methodists, dey cut up de Presbyter' - 
 ans, an' de Presbyter' ans pitches into de Methodists ; and den bofe on 
 sin's down on de Piscopals. My ole mist' was Piscopal, and I neber 
 seed no harm in it. And de Baptists tink dey a'nt none on 'em right 
 it ' while dey s a-blowin' out at each other dat ar' way, 1st wonder 
 to tvhar't de way L Canaan /" 
 
 Ringing the Devil 
 
 A few years ago, at a Negro camp-meeting, held near Flushing, the 
 colored preacher said: "I tell you, my blubbed bredern, dat de debble 
 is a big hog, an' one ob dese days he'll cum along an' root you all out' 
 An old negro, in one of the anxious pews, hearing this, raised bimsek 
 from the straw, and clasping his hands exclained in the agony of his 
 tears, "Ring him, Lord I ring him!" 
 
 Guffy and his Master. 
 
 OMPKIISrS, an esteemed friend of ours, 
 once had a good-for-nothing little black 
 fellow, some twelve or fourteen yeara 
 old, as a waiter boy, and after enduring 
 his pranks and mischief for some year 
 or so, was at length obliged to send him 
 adrift, to look after himself in the world. 
 Not a great while after parting with 
 little cuffy, his former master having oc- 
 casion to go to Albany, met him on 
 board the steamboat, where he was em- 
 ployed in the capacity of steward's as- 
 sistant, and addressing him, he said : 
 "Well, Jake, are you as bad as ever? 1 ' 
 " Oh, no," answered the young rascal 
 with a grin that brought into bold relief 
 every one of his white grindeis: "I'se got no bad examples now* 
 
 sah i 
 
 Delirium Tremendous. 
 
 A negro was brought up before the Mayor of Philadelphia, a ahc 
 time since, for sU.-aling chickens. 
 
 " Well, Toby," said his honor, "what have you to say for yourself? 
 
 " Nuffin but di~ 1 wag as crazy as a bed-bug when I stolo 
 
 dat ar' pullet, coz I might hab stole do big rooster, and neber done it* 
 Dat shows clusively to my mind dat I was laboring under de delirium 
 tremendous." 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Rntdder Banjosey On Kotchin Eels. 
 
 Oh I de days when we went eel-kotchin, 
 
 A long time ago- 
 We'd bread and "lasses ob de besa, 
 
 And trowsers made ob tow, 
 And dere we set de libe long nite, 
 
 Ton de bank so green, 
 And nought but tubs and eels and grog, 
 'Bout us cood be seen. 
 
 And dus we pass de nite away, 
 And out de eels wood trow. 
 In de days when we went eel-kotchia, 
 A long time ago. 
 
 And dem wus merry happy nites, 
 
, FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
6 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE, DEVILS. 
 
 Dead drunk was de lot, for de debbel had come, 
 To show dein how sugar would turn into rum. 
 
 But, oh! from dat day, 
 
 Core's do debbel to pay. 
 For though all do sugar is good for de treat, 
 Dey get by do sugar-cane jolly woll beat 
 
 Veiy rural 
 
 Insinuating Nigger. 
 
 There was said to be a vacant tenement in Cuffee's upper story, and 
 i he chucked his grist of corn into the mill, the miller said, ''Cuff, 
 ihey say you are a fool." "Wai, massa," repied Cuff, "Cuff knows 
 ni;i say so lull some ting Cuff know, and some ting h done know." 
 '\NYI1, Ciiff, what do you know?" "Wai, mnssa, Cuff know dat mill- 
 ers always ha' fat hog." " Well, and what dorit you know?" " Wai, 
 he! hoi he! Cuff done know whose corn de hog fat on!" 
 
 Hard Prayers. 
 
 k is related of a Virginia negro boy, who professed to be dreadfully 
 alarmed at the cholera, that he took to the woods to avoid it, and was 
 Uu're found asloep. Being asked why he went to the woods, he said, 
 'lo pray." "But," said the overseer, "how was it you went to 
 <li-ep?" "Don't know, massa, 'zaekly," responded the negro, "but I 
 :|M'C T must hab over-prayed myxef." 
 
 Negro Funeral. 
 
 A preacher when in the West Indies, one day undertook to read 
 ihe burial service over a negro, which was listened to with great at- 
 tention. But when the Doctor came to the part, "Dust to dust, and 
 ashes to ashes," the Negro who officiated as sexton, and was prepared 
 with a spade of earth for the usual ceremony, interrupted him with an 
 intimation that he had neglected to order die coffin to be put down 
 first: "Put him in de hole fast, Massa always put him in de hole 
 fust!' 
 
 " Tlie Road to Canaan:' 
 
 RS. Stowe's book, "Dread" teaches many a lessni 
 to white folks through a dark medium, and not the 
 least pointed one is the rebuke given Christian .le- 
 nominations by "Old Tiff," for their mint, anise and 
 cummin wrangles, while enquirers are asking ^.he 
 plan of salvation. "Old Tiff" has the care of the 
 children of his dead mistress, and having told them 
 that their mother had gone to the land of Canaan, 
 one enquires as follows: "Uncle Tiff, where is the 
 laud of, Canaan?" "De Lor-a-mercy, chile, dat ar's 
 A'hat I'd like to know myse I's studd : n' apon dat ar. I's gwine to 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR, BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Married Life. 
 
 Said Dinah to Sambo, as. they were taking a loving promenade, 
 " What your 'pinion 'bout the married life? tink it be de happiest?" 
 ' Well, I tell you ; dat ar' pend altogedder how dey enjoy dem- 
 selves." 
 
 Lost by an Absent H. 
 
 A cockney at a restaurant the other day called for a piece of pie to 
 
 op off with. Upon tasting, he found it to be cold, and calling tne 
 
 Ethiopian waiter who stood near, said to him : "Take the pie to the 
 
 fire and 'eat it" His consternation was great when Sambo walked 
 
 to the stove and quietly devoured the pie. 
 
 Congress arid Christians. 
 
 A negro, while under examination, on being asked whether hia 
 master was a Christian, replied, " Oh, Lor' nol he's a member of 
 Congress!" 
 
 Dark Weather. 
 
 " Good mornin', Sambo ; berry hot wedder, Sambo. Dey do say 
 dat it am so hot down-east, dat dey is 'bliged to take off de tops oh 
 de houses to let in de air." " Well, Cuffy, it can't git no hotter in our 
 house, anyhow, cause de frenometer's got bang up to de top: dat's 
 one comfort, Cuffy." 
 
 A long time ago; 
 When we eel'd from dark till light, 
 
 De moon as lite as snow. 
 And dere we sung de jolly song, 
 
 And danced upon de shore, 
 But, ah! dese hallumlujah days, 
 Will kuin agin no more. 
 Ah, how we pass'd de time away, 
 
 Nor thought ob care or woe, 
 On de nites when we went eel-kotchin, 
 A long time ago. 
 
 Quick Time. 
 
 A gentleman travelling at the South, inquired of a negro the dis- 
 tance to a certain place, and received this reply: "Dat 'pends on cir- 
 cumstances, massa. Ef you gwine afoot it'll take you 'bout a day ; 
 ef you gwine in de stage or the honeybus, you make it in half a day ; 
 but ef you git it in one of dese pmoke wagons (railroads) you almost 
 dar now." 
 
 Jonah Turned Up. 
 Not long since, in South Carolina, a clergyman was preaching on 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DENTTS. 
 
 the disobedience of Jonah, when commanded to go and preach to the 
 Ninevites. After expatiating for some tane on the truly awful con- 
 sequences of disobedience to the Divine commands, he exclaimed in 
 a voice of thunder, that passed through the congregation like an elec- 
 tric shock : 
 
 " And are there any Jonah's here .?'' 
 
 There was an old negro present, whose name was Jvtoah, who, 
 thinking himself called on, immediately rose, with his broadest grin 
 tod best bow, very readily answered 
 
 " Here be one, massa /" 
 
 Hard to take a Hint. 
 
 " Pompey, did you take the billet to Mr. Jones f" 
 
 "Es, massa." 
 
 " Did you see him ?" 
 
 " Es, sar, me jus did." 
 
 " How was he ?" 
 
 " Woy, massa, he looked pooty well, 'sidering he so blind !" 
 
 " Slind 1 what do you mean by that ?" 
 
 " vVoy, massa, when I was in de room, a gibbing him de paper, he 
 axed me whar was my hat ; and, massa, perhaps you won't believe 
 me, he wur on de top ob my head de hull time!" 
 
 Confidential. 
 
 " Massa says you must sartin pay de bill to-day," said a negro to a 
 New Orleans shop-keeper. 
 
 " Why, he is'nt afraid I'm going to run away, is he ?" was the 
 reply. 
 
 " Not 'zactly dat ; but look heea," said the darkey, slyly and mys- 
 teriously, ''he's gwine to run away hesel r and deretor wants to make 
 a big raise !" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Dog-okgy. 
 
 11 
 
 "Cuffy, why don't you kick dat dog ? 
 
 " What am de use ob kicking ebery cur dat snarls at you? Dont 
 you know dat am de way he wants you to bring him into notrje 
 
 Monkey-ania. 
 
 \ " Why, Charley," said a Yankee to a negro preacher, " you can't 
 I ven tell me who made the monkey." 
 , "Oh, yes I can, massa." 
 
 " Well, then, who make the monkey ?" 
 
 ' Why massa, de same one made de monkey wot made you! 
 
 A Novel Uiew of Adam's Fall 
 
 ' My tex ideren and gistern, will be found in de fus' chapter ot 
 
 juiesih. and dt twenty-seben verse: 'So de Lor make mam jus' like 
 
 '' Now, my bruderen, you see dat in de beginnin' ob de world 
 j* Lor' make Adam. I tole you how he make him: He make 'im 
 out ob clay, an' he sot 'im on a board, an' he look^at him, an' he say 
 
 Firs rate;' and when he get dry, he breathe in 'im de breff of life, 
 tie put him in de garden of Eden, and he sot 'im in one corner ob de 
 lot, an' he tole him to eat all de apples, 'ceptin' dem in de middle ob 
 de orchard; dem he wanted for he winter apples. Byrne-bye Adam 
 he got lonesome. So de Lor' make Ebe. I tole you how he make 
 her. He gib Adam lodlum, till lie git *ound 'deep : dep he gouge 
 
 
BLACK JOKES FOE BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 fib out he side and make Ebe : and he set Ebe in de corner of de gar- 
 den ; an* he tole her to eat all de apples, 'ceptin' dem in de middle ob 
 de ^ orchard ; dem he winter apples. Wun day de Lor' go out a bisit- 
 tin' de debbil cum-along ; he dress hisself in de skin ob de snake, and 
 he find Ebe ; an' he tole her : 'Ebe I why for you no eat de apple in 
 de middle ob de orchard?' Ebe say: 'Dem de Lor's winter apples.' 
 But de dibbil say : ' I tole you for to eat dem, case deys de best 
 
 pplee in de orchard.' So Ebe eat de apple an' gib Adam a bite; an' 
 lebbil go away. Byrne-bye de Lor' come home, an' he miss de win 
 ter-appTes; an' he call: 'Adam! you Adanf!' Adam he lay low; 
 *> de Lor' call again: 'You, Adam 1' Adam say : ' Hea, Lor' 1' and 
 ;le Lor' say : 'Who stole de winter-apples?' Adam tole him he don't 
 Know Ebe he expec' !' So de Lor' called : ' Ebe !' Ebe she lay low ; 
 ie Lor' call again : ' You, Ebe !' ' Ebe say : ' Hea, Lor'.' De'Lor' say : 
 
 Who stole de winter apples?' Ebe tole him she don't know Adam 
 -she expec' ! So de Lor' cotch 'em boff, and he throw dem over dt 
 ence, an' he tole 'em, 'Go work for your libin'I '" 
 
 Fust in Lub ! and Ice Oream I 
 
 - i nab always in my life," said Caesar Hannibal, "found de gals tc 
 M fust in lub, fust in a quarrel, fust in de dance, fust in de ice-cream 
 saloon, and de fust, best, and last in de sick-room! What would w 
 p->or fellers do widout dem? Let us be born as young, as ugly, and 
 as* helpless as we please, and a woman's arms am ready to receive us 
 shn it am who puts close 'pon our helpless, naked limbs, and cubbers 
 up our footses and toeses in long, flannel petticoats ; and it am she, 
 wi >, as we grow up, fills our dinner-basket wid doughnuts and apples 
 F i re start to school, and licks us when we tears our trowsers." 
 
 Loud Prayers. 
 
 PIOUS negro belonging to a Quaker, made 
 such a noise by shouting aloud his prayers in 
 the kitchen as to disturb the whole house, 
 whereupon Broadbrin. admonished him that 
 the Lord was not deaf, and oould hear the 
 feintest whisper " Yi, yi," triumphantly re- 
 plied the negro, " but de scripter says, ' hotter- 
 ed be thy namef" 
 
 Neber See Um Again I 
 
 'Sam, why don't you talk to your massa, and tell urn to lay up his 
 measure in heaven ?" 
 
 " What's the use of his laying up his treasure dar, where he neber 
 aee um again ?" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR B1UB DEVILS. i3 
 
 A Kind-hearted Negro. 
 
 " Pompey, are you willing to be damned, if it should be the Lord's 
 will ?" inquired a pious friend. 
 
 " O, yes, massa ! and more too ; I's willing you be damned, too. 
 Massal ' replied Pompey. 
 
 Roosting High. 
 
 " Now, look'er yer, Charley, Jim mout be an honest nigger, an 
 then, again, he mouten't; but if I was a chicken, and know'd he wa 
 about de yard, I tell ye wot, nigger, I'd roost high that I would I" 
 
 NORTH AND SOUTH: 
 
 OR. 
 
 " The Good Time Coming F 
 
 "Keep Off dat Heel I" 
 
 Isaiah Smith is black enough to pass for the ace of spades. His 
 body presents the Ethiopian formation, without blemish. He exhib- 
 its the woolly head, thick lips, and the long heels. Now, Isaiah is a 
 peaceable man, and tho' peaceable, no one has a right to tramp on his 
 heels. Yet. somebody did do it, the other night, down on Rice street 
 and Cheny alley; and, besides that, gave Isaiah a 'clue' on his let 
 cheek. HOAV it happened, we do not know to a positive certainty 
 but we will let Julius Csesar Anderson, a woolly-headed friend o, 
 ill's tell the story. One Joseph Wellenkamp, being charged with 
 assaulting Isaiah, in the Police Court this morning, Julius Caesar An- 
 derson was called up for a witness. 
 
 " Well, you see, hoss," said he, after being sworn, " I cooks down 
 on Sixth street. Well, I meets Isaiah, and sez Isaiah to me, 'Dat 
 wife mine bery, bery sick, Julius, an' I want's you to guy 'long down 
 an' see her.' 'Dosen't car efl does,' sez I to Isaiah, so down dar we 
 goes. Well, Isaiah's wile war bery sick. We guys into de house an 
 
14 
 
 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 found hei in de bed. ' How is you ?' sez I to Isaian's wife. ' Dam 
 rick,' says she, 'but I tinks if Isaiah go gets me a bolona sassage, I eatt 
 it and gets better /' " 
 
 This created a roar of laughter, which caused Julius to i oil up de 
 white of his eyes, and exclaim 
 
 " Dat'8 sc I She want's de sassage, so Isaiah and I guys 'long foi 
 the sassage. We gets to de street, and Isaiah yells out, "Q-et off dat 
 l-.fiel !" Sez I ' bress de Lor', I ain't on yer heel, Isaiah. Den he looks 
 aroiu.', and dar stood dat white man, stan'n on Isaiah's heel 1" 
 
 Here the laughter drowned the witness' voice. After a while hj 
 continued : 
 
 " Lor' a mighty, I war skeered. You better b'lieve I takes de out* 
 tide by de curb. Den dat white man he get off Isaiah's heel an' he 
 ip fist in' fotch him a lick right spank in de face. Den sez I, 'Legs 
 do him duty,' and I runs like de berry debbeL When dis chickec 
 comes back he goes de udder way, he did." 
 
 Yatter fever and Philosophy. 
 
 John Canepole was a small pocket edition of humanity. He had a 
 black servant who was a stout fellow ; and being a privileged joker, 
 Sambo let no occasion pass unimproved, where he could rally hie 
 ' upon his diminutive carcase, John was taken sick, and Sam- 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUR DEVILS. 16 
 
 bo was sent for the doctor. The faithful negro loved his master, and 
 apon the arrival of the physician looked up in his face anxiously. Ex- 
 amining the symptoms, the Doctor pronounced his patient in no dan- 
 ger. Reassured by this. Sambo's spirits returned, and he indulged hig 
 latural disposition for drollery. " I tell you, Doctor, Massa Canepoie 
 will die, cause he got a lever !" " A fever, you black dog,' 1 said the 
 patient, " does a fever always kill a man ?" " Yes massa, when a fe- 
 
 er gets into such a little man, it never hab room to turn in him, and 
 
 t' the fever no turn, you die sartin I" 
 
 A Fat Dance, 
 
 " Miss Josephina," said a thick, cherry-looking lipped negro, to one 
 of Afric's daughters. " Miss Josephine, will you does dis nigger de 
 anticipation ob dancin' a Wirginny reel wid 'nn ?" 
 
 "I doesn't assent to dance wulgaracions dances ob dat sort, Mr. 
 Casus," said Miss- Josephina, turning up still higher her well-rounded 
 upper lip- -turning it up till it fairly tickled her nose- "I dances only 
 de porker!" 
 
 Negro Attachment. 
 
 A Scotch merchant, in the island of Jamaica, had among his slaves 
 one whom he very much disliked, and treated with the greatest sever- 
 ity : A mutual dislike soon grew on the part of Quashy ; not only to 
 his master, but to all Scotchmen. Sunday being his holiday, he 
 bought at the water-side some fry (a small fish like shrimps), and call 
 ed past his master's door !" 
 
 " Fine Scotchmen, all ah' ve 1 Scotchmen I buy my Scotchmen f" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 His master in a rage calls him, " What have you there ?" 
 
 "Scotchmen, massa." 
 
 "Let me look? Why, you rascal, thebe are shrimps; how dart 
 you call them Scotchmen ?'' 
 
 " Oh, massa, looka here, dem stick together like Scotchmen ; come 
 Vne, come twenty, every time." 
 
 '-' His master did not forget the first opportunity to scratch Quashy's 
 back. After some time, the master was laid on his death-bed. 
 Touched with remorse at the reflection of the severity he had treated 
 this poor creature with, he sent for lu'm to the bed-side. 
 
 " Well, Quashy, I am going to die." 
 
 " Oh, massa, no Tddkeraboo yet" 
 
 " Yes, I must. I now feel I have been too harsh with you ?" 
 
 "Oh, massa, you flog me like a devill" 
 
 '' To make you amends, I'll leave you your freedom." 
 
 " Bless you heart, massa." 
 
 " Any thing else can you ask of me ?" 
 
 "Yes, massa, one little favor; when Quashy dead, let him be bury 
 close alongside of you." 
 
 " Affectionate creature! But why so?" 
 
 " Because, when the devil come, he will be so busy about you, ht 
 forget Quasny." 
 
 in de Current. 
 
 HE other night in Montgomery, Alaba 
 ma, I stepped into the Presbyterian lec- 
 ture-room where a slave was preaching: 
 " My Bredreu," says he, "God bressyour 
 souls, 'ligiou is like de Alabama river ; in 
 spring come fresh, an' bring in all de ole 
 logs, slabs, an' sticks dat hab been lyin' 
 on the bank, an' carry dem down in de 
 current Bymeby de water down, den a 
 1 log cotch here on dis island, den a slab 
 gits eotched on the shore, an' de sticks 
 on de bushes : an' dare dey lie wid'rin on 
 de shore an dryin' till come 'nether 
 fivslu Jus' so dare come 'vival of 1 ligion 
 ole backslider bro't back, an' all de folk 
 times. But, bredren, God bressyou 
 den dis ole sinner is stuck on his ole EIEL, 
 
 d b ...3 sinne- hro't 
 souis, bytntby 
 
 in. 
 
 an' mig- 
 vival ufone 
 
 souis, ycQfcy vva g , ->. 
 
 den dat ole backslider is cotehed where he was afore on jus such a 
 roek ; den one after 'nother dat had got 'ligion lies all along de shore 
 an' dare dey lie till 'nother : vivaL Beloved bredren, God bress our 
 souls, keep in de current" 
 
 One Eyed John. 
 "My brethering, I am ".vine to proach you a very plain sar 
 
JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 11 
 
 mon to-day a sarmon what even women can understand. You will 
 find my text in the 5 varse of the two-eyed chapter of one-eyed Jonn." 
 It was some time before it was perceived that he meant 1 John, chap- 
 ter IL 
 
 A -Darkey's Speech. 
 
 N one of the smaller cities of Massachusetts, 
 the colored population held meetings to discuss 
 the propriety of celebrating the anniversary o! 
 West Indian Emancipation, August 1st. At 
 one of these meetings, a very conservative gen- 
 tleman wes exceedingly surprised to see some 
 of the "fair sex" rising and taking part in the 
 discussion. After two or three of the sisters 
 had "freed dar mines" on matters under debate, 
 he sprung up in a greatly excited state, and 
 addressed the audience : 
 
 " Feller-citizens ! ef I'd sposed 'at de ladees 
 s wood p'mitted to take a part in dis yere discus- 
 sion (sensation) ef I'd node 'at de ladees could jine in dis debate- 
 Jail eyes turned on the speaker) ef I'd bleeved for one minit, feller- 
 citizens, 'at de female sect wood dare to raise deir woice in dis yere 
 meetin' I'd, feller-citizens (' Wot, wot wood you've a did ef you'd 
 Qode it ?' shouted two or three of the strong minded sisters, as the 
 whites of their eyes flashed on the speaker) I'd (scratching his wool) 
 f'd a brung my wife, along with me /" 
 
 Here the discomfited orator dropped into his seat, completely ex- 
 lausted. 
 
 A Southerner's Household. 
 
 HEY number four persons. My cook, 
 Sophronisba EtheliaMalvina Jones, whom 
 I call " Aunt Niz" for brevity ; " Cuff," 
 whom I also term Caesar, Pompey, Jove, 
 &c., and who does not object to answer tc 
 the name of John ; Peter, my hostler, and 
 Hein-Eifels Johann Pfroschlangstered 
 Duminkopf, my gardener, market-man, 
 model of industrious stupidity, and univer 
 sal laughter stimulant, whom I call by hia 
 entire name, by way of lingual excitation. 
 Thank fortune, every one of my family are 
 characters, originals, departures from the 
 common run, and worthy of being studied 
 fc specimens of psycoiogical mysterie 
 id of a surety I have not been disappointed. 
 A.unt Niz belongs to me. I purchased her and have a bill of gale. 
 
18 BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 I paid just $20 for her. I would not take $1000. I paid a visit to an 
 Eastern Shore friend of mine recently, and having mentioned rny in- 
 tentions of farming, he asked me if I did not want a cook. I did. 
 He had the very best article for me, he said, and called up Aunt Ni*. 
 I was struck with her appearance. 
 
 'Would you like to live with me?" asked L 
 
 " Is you married, marster ? " 
 
 I uttered a cry of indignant repugnance. 
 
 " Does you b'long to de temp'rance s'ciety, marster ? " 
 
 I shouted no 1 no I I no 1 1 I 
 
 " Den I packs my trunk dis night, if you will buy me, marster. 
 You jist is de berry man. Mars. John here's berry good, but him'i 
 new married wife um got too much ob de mistress 'bout her. She 
 will keep poking all 'round de kitchen, spite um all I can say, an' she 
 locks the jimmydon so tight I can't even smell ary drop of whiskey." 
 
 " What are her faults ?" asked I, when she had gone. 
 
 " She will have her own way. She wiH get drunk. She witt smoke 
 die foulest pipe, run away to husking frolics, and eteal from the 
 pantry!" 
 
 "Her virtues?" asked I, laughing. 
 
 " Good cook, and honest, except to eatables and liquors, and strong 
 as an ox, though she's full fifty years old." 
 
 " What is your price ?" 
 
 " Oh, I would not sell her for anything. I will give her to you, if 
 you will promise never to send her out of the State." 
 
 "I will give you that promise and $20 if you will give me a bill of sale," 
 
 It was done; and thus I came in to possession of "Aunt Niz." She 
 pleases, me very much. She is a very tall, spare built old woman, 
 straight as an arrow, with a fine intelligent countenance, and a very 
 long arm. She dresses either in "linsey woolsey" or "blue domes- 
 tic," and has sold two dresses that I gave her for whiskey. She al- 
 ways wears a parti-colored bandanna turban on her head, put far 
 back, so as not to interfere with the buckets, tubs, bags, and milkpans 
 that she is constantly carrying about upon the summit of her cranium. 
 I like her much, I say, though her faults are many. She knows how 
 to cook, and is willing, obliging and considerate. She has faults, most 
 undoubtedly. I have had her six weeks, and she has been drunk 
 thirteen times. She pilfers my groceries a little and smokes whenev- 
 er she is at work. It was only yesterday that she came in and told 
 me the dog had stolen niy butter. 
 
 "Is it not in your closet, Aunt Niz? You have' not looked well 
 Let me look." 
 
 She hurried ahead of me, opened the closet dcor, and I saw her 
 thrust something very suspiciously into her bosom 
 
 "It's not Jar, marster, you sec/"' 
 
 "No, it isn't dar. But what yellow stuff is that smeared on yooi 
 chin, aunt Niz?" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR 13LUK DEVILS. 18 
 
 8h bad a great lump of butter there. 
 
 "Oh, dat's lard, inarster." 
 
 "What are you doing with lard on your chin?" 
 
 "Why, you see, marster, as I tuck de coffee bilur ofl'n de fiie. de 
 steam flewed up, an' blistered my chin 'mazin' bad : so I put de lacd 
 on to heal him. 
 
 It was very hot in the kitchen, and already the butter began to 
 men under her dress and ooze through. 
 
 " Where did you get so much grease on your sleeves, aunt Niz ? " 
 asked I. 
 
 " Oh, Lord, marster Q-, as I'm a sinner, it's bin so hot it's done and 
 melted de lard from my chin, so dat it's done dropped down dar. Dat 
 am bad, sartin." 
 
 "What have you got here, aunt Niz?" said I, touching my finge. 
 against the plate in which the butter was, as it half showed itself un- 
 der her dress. 
 
 " Jerush, Marster Penne, doesn't you really know data my decease? 
 I been had de de hosserfecashun of the chist You know de 
 bones all turn into meat I means dat de meat all grow into bone. 
 Doctors hab tell me it'll kill me one ob dese days. Now, raelly, el 
 Marster John meant a fair trade, he should have told you all my blem- 
 ishes; don' ye think so, marster?" 
 
 I gave up the butter subject after that, and she may steal it by th 
 pound, so I have enough. 
 
*> BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Next on my list is "Cuff." He is "my little black boy," and haa 
 the " gizzard foot and Eboe shin" to an intensity perfectly wonderful 
 His face is as black and as round, and as shiny as one of those fresh 
 painted cannon balls that they pile so symmetrically in the navy- 
 yards. 
 
 "Cuff" is a humorist, a fellow of finest fancies, and when he rolls his 
 eyes and shows his splendid teeth with an appreciative chuckle, sayg 
 he would like to be a theaumater actor, and play Othello and Dee- 
 demona. 
 
 He is a decided good boy, is "Cuff," is a practical philosopher of the 
 class of "optimists," and is opposed to any expenditure of the "mus- 
 cular fibre" that can be avoided. 
 
 I hke to see him sleeping of an afternoon, under my hammock, and 
 it delights me to notice how patiently he will bear any amount of 
 ca.liog without indicating his annoyance, or, indeed, showing in any 
 way his consciousness of it- and when I pour a tumbler full of water 
 into bis ear, instead of getting angry, hj only sighs gently and turui> 
 upoh the other side. 
 
 Who knows but my philosop uc Cuff may in time become an 
 jfip;ctetus ? 
 
 Uor could any observant person fail to derive benefit from a study 
 of the appearance and character of Peter, who superintends my sta 
 bles, and assists at whatever other work may not interfere with his 
 own ideas of comfort Peter is sixty years of age, tall and comely, 
 with his broad, liver-colored visage, his hair sprinkled with gray, his 
 immensely capacious mouth, and the general atmosphere of well-to-dc 
 unctuousuess that pervades him and his surroundings. 
 
 Peter is a member of the church, and a class leader, and a thorough 
 bred type of the Thadband school dtme in brown. His prayer wella 
 over with his complacent " PharJseeism." which is shocked and di 
 

 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 31 
 
 tressed at the "sinful creatures" around him, and his hypocrisy ia so 
 closely interwoven into the woof of his being, that without it he 
 would lose his charm, would not be Peter. He drinks his whiskey 
 as in the act of the bestowal of a "cup of cold water" upon some 
 famished brother and he is not a disciple of Father Matthew; he 
 steals a sheep and then draws a knife across its throat with the air of 
 a father who is slaying the fatted calf upon the return of a much loved 
 prodigal, and performs every action, good, bad, or indifferent, with 
 the stateliness and dignity of a Roman Senator. It is almost impossi- 
 ble to disturb his equanimity. If you accuse him of wrong doing, he 
 mildly drops an appropriate text about the imperfections and injustice 
 of human justice, and murmurs something very provoking about 
 " where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." 
 
 Aunt Niz, who hates him f >r a "sneaking cat's paw" is the only 
 one who can manage him. She often sends him salt for sugar, spills 
 her hot grease upon him. gives him broken plates to eat out of, and 
 makes him uncomfortable as possible. Once she made him angry and 
 from my hammock I heard a most prodigious oath and a blow. I 
 went to the kitchen, and there was aunt Niz, drunk, on the floor, 
 with an empty jug in her hand, and Peter standing over her with a 
 huge hickory broom raised on high 1 
 
 "What, Peter, beating a woman?" 
 
 No, Master Wilhelm, thanks be to Gno. J b^e . sufficient con 
 rol over my exasperations I was only returning good for evil. This 
 drunken wretch had robbed me of my stomach bitters, and I air 
 ing the flies off her" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOE BLUE DfeVILS. 
 
 Didn't 'know what struck him. 
 
 A young fellow, once walking down a street, in Richmond, 
 was met by a son of darkness, who, in passing, jostled him. Thfl 
 young fellow turned quickly, and, with one blow, Knocked him into 
 the middle of the street Slowly picking himself up, and nibbing hit 
 eyes, he exclaimed, with an ir resistible ludicrousne**, " Lor' Almighty 
 ;nassa I how did I git heah ?" 
 
 Looked like a Nigger. 
 
 Our Jim was only three years old. A colored barber waa sent foi 
 to shave Jim's uncle, who was sick. Jim hated niggers, as he called 
 them. We knew that our poor colored brother would have rather a 
 aarJ time if we did not give some wise and wholesome advice to our 
 little three-year-old previous to his coming ; so, taking him aside, we 
 
 " Georgie, there is a colored gentleman coming to shave Uncle Wil- 
 liam to-day, and you may go and see him if you will not call him a 
 nigger for he isn't; he is a colored gentleman. Now you won't call 
 *iim a nigger, will you ?" 
 
 "No, Alarm!" 
 
 Thus our fears were at an end ; and in the course of the morning 
 our worthy friend came. Georgie watched him very closely, and 
 seemed evidently to be in something of a " brown study." At length 
 going up quite near him, he gave one very scrutinizing glance, and 
 said: 
 
 Look here I you ain't anigger, are you f you area colored gentleman ; 
 but you look like a nigger, pretitely" 
 
 Tliis was too much for black or white to endure, and our colored 
 friend seemed to enjoy the joke as much as any of us. 
 
 Mutton versus Souts. 
 
 et me tell you an incident. I know it to be true, 
 
 for it occurred here in Zanesville. Judge A , j 
 
 the individual mentioned, is our present member I 
 of Congress, and Parson Jones, the old negro \ 
 preacher, (heaven rest his bones!) with his old I 
 gray mare and rickety cart, have long since returned J 
 to dust The judge was present at the delivery o 
 .one of his sermons, and was brought in by the 
 
 >eaker by way of illustrating a certain position 
 
 ien and there taken by him. 
 "My dear friends and brethren," said 'he, "d 
 soul ob de brack man is as dear in de sight ob de 
 Lord as de soul ob de white man. Now you aB 
 a-sitting dah leaning on his golden headed cane; you 
 
 iee Judge- 
 
 all know de Judge, niggas, and a terry One man he is, too. Well 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUK DEVILS. 13 
 
 now, Tse gvine to make a liitle comparishment: Suppose de judge, 
 some fine mornin' puts his basket on his arm and goes to market to 
 buy a piece of meat He soon finds a nice fat piece of mutton ar<d 
 goes off with it Do you 'spose de judge would stop to 'quire weuder 
 dat mutton was ob a white sheep or ob a brack sheep ? No, nuffin 
 ob de kind ; if de mutton was nice an' fat it would be all de same to 
 de judge ; he would not stop to ask wedder de sheep had white wool 
 or brack wool. Well, jis so it is, my frens, wid our Hebenly Master 
 He does not stop to ax wedder a soul 'longs to a white man or abracfc 
 man wedder his head was kivered wid straight har or kivered wid 
 wool; the only question he would ax will be, 'Is dis a good soulY 
 and if so de Massa will say, ' Enter into de joy ob de Lord, an' sit 
 down on de same bench wid de white man ; ye's all on a perfect 
 'quality. 11 
 
 Editors not Gemmen. 
 
 An editor got shaved in a barber-shop lately, and offered the darkey 
 a dime, which was refused : because, said he, " I understand you is an 
 editor!" 
 
 "Well, what of that?" 
 
 " We neber charge editors nuffin." 
 
 " But such liberality will ruin you." 
 
 " Oh, nebber mind, we makes it up off de gemmen /" 
 
 " Great Ory and Littk Wool' 1 
 
 " Gum Games." 
 
 At a negro camp meeting held when such assemblies were less rar 
 than they are at present, the speaker in depicting the horrors of eter 
 nal punishment, reiterated the phrase " There shall be weeping and 
 wailing and gnashing of teeth," accompanying the last expression 
 with an appropriate movement of the lower jaw. It so happened that 
 a gray old sinner had obtained possession of one of the seats on the 
 stage, where he sat, at every recurrence of this phrase, nibbing his 
 toothless gums with a grin of complacent satisfaction, that greatly 
 disturbed the gravity of the beholders, It was some time before the 
 
24 
 
 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Bleaching a She-ting. 
 
 "Sam, why am de belobed ob my heart, Miss Dinah, de sunflowei 
 b de hill like a kind ob cloth dev make in Lowell ? '' 
 " I don t know, nigger why ? * 
 " Cos she's an unbleached she-ting." 
 
 Betting with a Mule. 
 
 A Georgia negro was riding a mule along, and can e to a bridge, 
 when the mule stopped. 
 
 " I'll bet you a quarter," said Sambo, " Til make yt u go ober dis 
 bridge," and with that he struck the mule over the ears, which made 
 him nod his head suddenly. " Yon t.uke de bet den," said the negro, 
 
 speaker discovered what was distracting the attention of his audience, 
 but when he did, he turned to the offender, and with redoubled ear- / 
 nestness exclaimed, " an' dem what's got no teeth 'HI hob to yum it 1 
 
 Cuffee ahead of Cliemislry. |f 
 
 ' I say, Cuffee, does you know what makes de corn grow so fast 
 
 when you put de manure on it?" 
 
 " No, I don't know 'cept it makes de ground stronger for de corn." 
 " No, I just tell you ; when de corn begins to smll de manure, it 
 
 don't like de 'fumery, so it hurries out ofde ground and gute up u 
 
 ttigh as possible, so it canlt breathe de bad air, 
 
 " Vanity Fair." 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEYIL& 
 
 and then contrived to get the stubborn mule over the bridge. "I won 
 dat quarter, anyhow," said Sambo. 
 
 But how will you get your money?" said a man close by, unper- 
 reived. 
 
 "To-morrow," replied Sambo, "masaa gib a dollah to get com, an' 
 
 take de quarter out" 
 
 Black Coffins, 
 
 During the war Sir Isaac Coffin visited Dartmoor prison, for the 
 purpose of releasing all the American prisoners who bore the name of 
 Coffin, and might be supposed to be of his family. When a number 
 had been liberated, a negro presented himself, and claimed his liberty 
 by the same title. 
 
 " What," said the Admiral, "you a Coffin too!" 
 
 "Yes, massa." 
 
 "How old are you?" 
 
 "Me thirty year, massa." 
 
 " Well then, you are not one of the Coffins, for they never tors 
 olack before they are forty." 
 
 Tfie Brewer and Negro. 
 
 s 
 
 A Brewer in a country town 
 
 Had got a monstrous reputation : 
 No other beer but his went down 
 
 The hosts of the surrounding station 
 Carving his name upon their mugs, 
 
 And painting it on every shutter; 
 
 And tho' some envious folks would utter 
 Hints that its flavor came from drugs, 
 Others maiatain'd 'twas no such matter, 
 
 But owing to his monstrcus vat, 
 
 At least as corpulent as that 
 At Heidelburg rand some said fatter 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILO. 
 
 His foreman was a lusty black, 
 
 An honest fellow; 
 But one wiio had an ug'y knack 
 Of tasting samples us Lt Uiwed, 
 
 Till he waa stupefied and mellow. 
 One day in this top-heavy mood. 
 
 Having to cross the vat aforesaid, 
 (Just then with boiling beer supplied) 
 
 O'ercome with giddiness and qualms, he 
 Reel'd fell in and nothing more said, 
 But in his favorite liquor died, 
 
 Like Clarence in liis butt of Mahusey. 
 
 In all directions round about 
 The negro absentee was sought, 
 But as no human noddle thought 
 
 That our fat Black was now Brown Stout 
 
 They settled that the negro had left 
 The place for debt or crime or theft. 
 
 Meanwhile the beer was day by day 
 Drawn into casks and sent away 
 
 Until the lees flowed thick anc' thicker, 
 When lo ! outstretched upon the ground, 
 Once more their missing friend they found, 
 
 As they had often dcnj in liquor. 
 
 8ee, cried his moralizing master, 
 
 I always knew the fellow drank hard 
 
 And prophesied some sad disaster ; 
 
 His fate should other tipplers strike, 
 
 Poor Mi;ngo' there he welters, like 
 A toast ;\t bottom of a tankard! 
 
 Next ni-irn a publican whose tap 
 Had lu-lp'd to drain the vat so dry, 
 
 Not having heard of the mishap, 
 Came to demand a fresh supply, 
 
 Protesting loudly that the last 
 
 All previous specimens surnass'd, 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Possessing a much richer gusto 
 Than formerly it ever used to, 
 And begging as a special favor 
 Some more of the exact same flavor. 
 
 Zounds! cried the Brewer, that's a task 
 More difficult to grant than ask, 
 Most gladly would I give the smack 
 
 Of the last beer to the ensuing, 
 But where am I to find a Black, 
 
 And boil him down at every brewing ? 
 
 A Hair Question. A Colored Confab. 
 
 J /v>,2> < Why you hab your hair parted in de. middle, you swell 
 
 c igger ?' 
 
 i " Cuff- ' Kase it's de fashun wid all what respecks demselves, you 
 tfld-heftdnd embodiment ob blacking, you. But what is de -liflerence 
 potween your hair and mine, Pomp ?" 
 , Pomp" Gibs it up." 
 Cu "My hair is parted in de middle, and your'n is de-parted I 
 
 Negro Wit 
 
 , A planter in Maiden, Massachusetts, had a slave who nad been ID 
 l is family until he was about seventy years of age. Perceiving thai 
 t icre was not much work for the old man, the planter spoke to him 
 
 ne day to the following effect : 
 
 \ " Yoa have been a faithful servant, Sambo, to me, and my fathei 
 before me. I have lor.g had thoughts of irwanlhi:; you for your ser- 
 vices. I give you now your fit-cdnm Von an; your own master 
 , 
 
 k 
 
ffi 
 
 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 The old negro listened attentively to this discourse ; when it was 
 concluded he shook his grisly head, and, with a sly glance, showing 
 that he saw through his master's intentions, replied : 
 
 "No, no, inassa; you eat de meat, and now you must pick tie 
 bone." 
 
 Nigger Powder. 
 
 hat a funny name is yours, Sambo." 
 
 " Es, sir, berry funny but I got christened Pow 
 
 der Magazine for a 'ticular object." 
 " What was that, Sambo ?" 
 "CosMassa. who is very hot-tempered, darn't 
 
 blow him up.' 
 
 Nigger Philosophy. 
 
 " Cuffee, which do you tink de most useful of de , 
 planets, de sun or de moon?" 
 
 Sambo. I think the moon orter take the 
 fus rank in dat ar' 'tickler." 
 
 :< Wha, wha, wha, why do you tink so, Cuffee?") 
 " Well, I tell you kase she shines by night wher 
 we want light, and de sun shines by day, when we 
 do not" 
 
 "Well, Cuff, you is the grea-est nigger I knows on dat'p real] 
 fac." 
 
 Negro Wit 
 
 "Jack," said a gentleman to an old neerrp who was rather lazily! 
 engaged in clearing the snow from his premises " Jack, my old boy,i 
 you dont get along with this job very fast." 
 
 ' Why master," replied Jack, scratching his wool, " pretty consider- 
 able for an old man, I guess ; and I conceit myself that I can cleaii 
 more snow away in dese here short days, dan de spryest nigger J 
 dis city could do in de longest summer day as ever was." ' 
 
 day 
 You not so berry fat, after all. 
 
 field slave in the south one daj 
 found in his trap a plump rabbi? 
 He took him out alive, held hir 
 under his arm, patted him and be-l 
 gan to speculate on his good qual< 
 ities. 1 
 
 "Oh, how fat berry fat the} 
 fattest I eber did see I Let 
 see how I'll cook him. I 
 him ? No ; he so fat he lose 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVIL& 26 
 
 de grease! I fry him? Ah, yes! He so berry fat he fry himself! 
 Qofly, how fat he be ! No ; I won't fry Mm I stew him I 
 
 The thought of the savory stew made the negro forget himself, and 
 in spreading out the feast in his imagination, his arms relaxed, *vhen 
 off hopped the rabbit; and, squatting at a goodly distance, he eyed 
 his late owner with cool composure. 
 
 The negro knew there was an end of the stew, and summoning up 
 til his philosophy, he thus addressed the rabbit, at the same tune 
 haking his fist at him : 
 
 "You long-eared, white- whiskered rascal you not so berry fat 
 arterall!" 
 
 Old Ginger Orow 
 
 Old Ginger Crow, 
 
 Him come from Alabama ; 
 Old Ginger Crow, 
 
 Him downy as a hammer. 
 Racoon's tail am berry long, 
 
 Monkey's nose am blue ; 
 Oh! Missy Dinah 
 
 Chickafcbiddy Coo! 
 
 Chorus. 
 Walk Ginger Crow 
 
 Jenny, oh, my I 
 
 Old Johnny Walker, 
 
 Hit him in de eye. 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVTI& 
 
 Dinah's legs am like de mop ; 
 Her feet am like de shovel i 
 All her lily picaninnies 
 
 Ugly as de debble. 
 hi if I 
 
 Oh 1 if I was in old Kentuck, 
 
 As sure as eggs am eggs, 
 I'd punch dat sassy nigger Sam 
 
 And pull him by de legs. 
 
 Walk Ginger Grow, *& 
 
 Old Ginger Crow was taken ill 
 
 It wasn't long ago 
 Dem say it was de toothache 
 
 Attack him in de toe. 
 And now de poor old boy am dead, 
 
 And in him grave am laying ; 
 And so de niggers can't insult him 
 
 Any more by saying 
 
 Walk Ginger Crow, 
 
 Jenny, oh, my' 
 Old Johnny Walker 
 
 Hit him in de eye I 
 
 Substraction. 
 
 " Sambo, 'spose dere is six chickens in a coop, and the man Bella 
 three, how many is dere left?" 
 
 " What time ob day was it ?" 
 
 "What hab Jat got to do wid it?" 
 
 " A good deal. If it was after dark, dere would be none left, dat 
 is, if you happened to come along dat way." 
 
 "Look heah, nigga, stop dem personalities, or I'll shove a brick at 
 dat head ob yourn." 
 
 The real Ethiopian Serenaders, or the first that extracted Note 
 
 (Bank} from Bones. 
 
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 BLACK JOKES FOlt BLUK UK VILA Bl 
 
 Trick of a Negro Ventriloquist. 
 
 A night or two since an officer of the Sixth ward in Philadelphia 
 <>rhauied a colored individual who was coining away iroua the 
 7 with a coil of rope. Darkey was questioned as to where he 
 the chattels, and he replied that he was a hand on the steamboat 
 rest, and that both the rope and the custodian were " all right" 
 'b|e officer turned ebony to the right about, and both went together 
 u board the boat Nobody was in sight, and the darkey went boldly 
 gangway, and shouted out: 
 ; ' Hello w, Bill!" 
 
 ' Hellow it is I" came a response, in a gruff, sepulchral tons, which 
 tz would have envied, and wliieh seemed to emerge from the depth 
 the steamer. 
 
 stc 
 
 til 
 
 u 
 
 ' Come up on deck, right away, Bill ; dere's a police got me for 
 alin' dis rope !" 
 
 'Ay! ay I" again shouted the gruff voice "jist wait, can't you, 
 I git on my trousis ?" 
 r*' Well, pull a heel den, and be quifk, for I wants to be off." 
 ' Tliis colloquy served to measurably satisfy the officer, and he re- 
 Ijixed his watchfulness over his prisoner. The latter embraced the 
 Opportunity to take his leave slyly, and he took the coil of rope with 
 h|iui. The officer meantime became tired of waiting, and went in 
 search of his voucher for his late prisoner. After considerable trouble 
 3f man who was sleeping below was roused up and questioned con- 
 kerning the colored man and the coil of rope. The sleepy individual 
 u vowed he knew nothing about either, and the officer finally ascer- 
 L nined that he had been sold by a thief who possessed first-class ven^ 
 jiloquial power. 
 
 No Trutti in Him. 
 
 " Jim, I bolieve Sam's got no truth in him." 
 
 " You don't know nigga ; dere's more truth in dat rugger dan all dfc 
 
 s' on de plantation." 
 
 r How do you make dat ?" 
 
 j' Why, him never let any out, do he ?" 
 
 Cattis Philosophy. 
 
 f"Cato what do you suppose .9 the reason that the sun goes to the 
 gnith in the winter ?'" 
 
 " "Well, I don't know, rnassa, unless he no stand de clemency o) 
 l t uorf, and so am obliged to go to de souf, where he eperiences wanner 
 j o; igimitude." 
 
 A Saucy Niyger. 
 
 ; Matter : " Sam, where's the hoe?" 
 iSam: " Wid de harrow. 
 
32 BLACK JOKES FOE BLUE DEVIUS. 
 
 Master : " Well, where's the harrow ?" 
 Sam : " Wid de hoe I" 
 
 Master : " Well, then, where's the hoe and harrow both T 
 Sam: "Vy, both togedder, massa; what you want u> bodder 
 Sam dat way for?" 
 
 Master : tf Qo to the !" 
 
 Sam: " Arter you, massa ." 
 
 A Novel Depot 
 
 " Look here, Pete," said a knowing darkey to his companion, 'don't 
 tan' on de rail-road." 
 
 'Why, Joe?" 
 
 " Kase ef de cars see dat mouf ob yourn, dey will tink it am 
 depo' an' run rite in 1" 
 
 A Slave's Idea of Spiritual Salvation. 
 
 slave, who was a "professor," plagued his ma 
 very nrnoh by ais persistence in certain immoj 
 practices, and he requested a clergyman to convey 
 with him, and try to reform him. The clergymi 
 did so, and endeavored to bring the terrors of the la! 
 to bear upon his conscience. 
 
 "Look yeah, massa," said the backslider, " dpnt 
 de Scripture say, ' Dem who believe and is baptised 
 'shall be saved ?" 
 
 " Certainly," the clergyman answered, and went on to explain 
 expound the passage ; but directly the slave interrupted him again. 
 
 " Jus you tell me now massa, don't de good book say dese - 1 *' 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUE DMVILS. 38 
 
 / 
 
 Dem as believes and is baptise shall be save;' want to know dat." 
 " Yes, but " 
 
 \ "Dat's all I wan to know, sar; now wat's de use o' *alkin' to me? 
 Y/ou ain't goin' to make me bleve wat de blessed Lord says ain't so, 
 n/bt ef you try forever." 
 
 The clergyman again attempted to explain, but tte negro would 
 [Act allow him, and as often as he got back to the judgment day, or 
 was charging him with sin, and demanding reformation he would' in- 
 tlerrupt him in the same way. 
 
 (' "De Scripture say, if a man believe and be b&ptise, he shall he 
 tLall be save. Now, massa minister, I d&ne believe and I done bap- 
 Dse, an' 1 shall be saved sartin dere's no use Ulkin', sir." 
 
 ( Ah ! this is the form of my ewn dear angel one* seer, 
 never to be forgotten I 
 
 Two- Forty. 
 
 Charles Edmondson and Peter Freeman, two members of the col 
 ed aristocracy of the city, were brought in tor fighting at the foo 
 if Grand street. It appears that for some time there has been con 
 fjiderablc jealousy between these two individuals, from the fact thai 
 the affections of both have unfortunately fixed upon the same sable 
 female. The lady has been undecided which to choose, not having 
 yet settled in her mind which is the most of a match. Freeman haa 
 a monopoly of the bill-slicking business in that vicinity, and Edmond- 
 son possesses the exclusive patronage of those in that neighborhood 
 who have wood to saw. Each is the owner of all the tools for carry. 
 ing on a heavy business in his own peculiar line said implements 
 consisting in the one case of a paste pail, whitewash brush and step- 
 
54 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 ladder ; and ii the other of a wood-horse, buck-saw, greaser, leat&er 
 knee-pal and pair of buckskin mittens. This property is all believed 
 to be unincumbered and paid for, although there is a rumor that a ojar 
 tain clam-woman has a mortgage on the paste-brush, to secure a d^bt 
 of one and sixpence for shell-tish devoured, but not settled tor by 
 Freeman. There was no personal beauty in the case to apeak of, or 
 if there was it was not visible to the naked eye. As the capricioua 
 belle upon whom they lavished so much affection and so many red 
 ibbons, had shown no- decided preference for either, but had treated 
 oth with more than usual friendship, there was considerable excited 
 feeling between the two. No hostilities had been declared by eithei 
 tide, but it was well understood that the two were not a colored reil- 
 \zation of Damon and Pythias. On Thursday morning they met O/P 
 she dock, and after some bantering about strength, speed, and agility 
 i dispute arose which was to be settled by. a foot race. 
 The race is described by a policeman who was present 
 The parties prepared for the contest by taking off their boots and 
 nats, and rolling their pantaloons up above their knees; both then 
 look a long drink of corn whiskey, through separate straws, out ojf 
 barrel which was near, and declared themselves ready to start from a 
 certain pile of timbers and run forty rods to the whiskey barrel, t&ke, 
 i suck, and run back. One judge was stationed on the timbers, to '< 
 tee that the start was all right, and one on the barrel to see that each 
 drank his share. 
 
 first Heat: Charley ahead till Pete caught him by the alack of 
 Beeches and pulled him back; Pete reached the barrel first, got h 
 st ^.w in the hole and took his drink before Charley could pick hin 
 i^' up ; on the return track he stubbed his tod on a spike, but got ' 
 _> ime to win. 
 
 Second Heat : Started fair ; race pretty even to the barrel ; straw 
 ti together; ooth took long drinks ; on the home stretch Charley'* 
 Btr ught pins proved too much for Pete's bandy legs, and he wor> 
 ef -y. 
 
 Third Heal: Foul start; Pete .alls down, Charley tumbles ever 
 hta, and both rolled into a little puddle of molasses ; extricated bj' 
 ol /cious friends; both tired; both keep anxious eye on the whiskey 
 ot/rel; both hurry up; most there; Charley trips Pete, who pitches 
 
 I 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BL r F DKVTLS 
 
 at> 
 
 I 
 
 oth welt away at each otlier till separated by the officers and led to 
 \he Station-house ; race undecided ; bets drawn ; whisky suffers 
 nd the fight ain't settled. 
 Justice let them both go and wished them better luck next time. 
 
 Sharp Practice, 
 
 ut in the west a sable knight of the lather and 
 brush was performing the operation of shaving 
 a customer with a very dull razor. 
 
 " Stop,"said the customer, " that won't do." 
 
 " What's de matter, boss ?" 
 
 "The razor pulls." 
 
 " Well, no matter for dat, sah. If de handle 
 ob de razor don't break, the beard's bound to 
 come offl" 
 
 A Deaf Nigger. 
 
 " Why am you like Tom Moore ?" said 
 Congo, shouting into Quaco's ear. 
 
 " Who am Tom Moore ? Me nebber bean 1 
 ob him." 
 
 "You rigromamus, him mighty big Irisl 
 
 don't know. Congo, give it up." 
 " Why, because you are debarred of hearin' (de bard of Erin.)" 
 
 An Unaccountable Pig. 
 'Socrates, yon nigger, have you fed the pigs?" 
 " Yes, massa, me feed um." 
 "Did yon count them?" 
 '' Yes, raassa, me count um a'l but one." 
 'All but one?" 
 
 " Yes, massa, all but one ; dere be one little speckle pig, he frisk 
 bout so much me couldn't count him /" 
 
 A Black Lad-der. 
 
 " Mass Torn I Mass Tom ! Oh, Mass Tom I how&e 1 gwine to ge 
 
 down dis laddor ?" 
 
 " Come down the same way you went up, you blockhead I" replied 
 he master, running up to see what was the matter. 
 " De same way as I come up, Mass Tom ?" 
 ' Yes, coi/ound you I and don't bother me any more." 
 ' Well, if 1 must, I must!" and down came the little darkey boat 
 
 'foremost 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUK DKVILB. 
 Getting n,p a Shine. 
 
 IZ 
 
 Converting a tough Nigger 
 
 A colored preacher at the South was having a revival- '' power' I 
 till time" and trot all the negroes j n the vicinity into a serious mood/ ', 
 Only one hold out. Coon Squash, a notoriously hard case in hot? 
 head and heart for he had been known to butt a hole in a lime-kilnj 
 and had the heart to eat rattlesnakes. He attended service, however] 
 with great regularity, but could not be brought to his knees. OnpM 
 night the preacher determined to ''fetch him down," and went at iy 
 in a powerful prayer. He first told how sinful Coon was in shutting 
 up the bars of his heart to keep the Spirit out, and ^holding up his 
 head as stiff as a sugar-house stack. Old Coon began to think he 
 a hard case, and so resolved to unbend a little, and lean his head 
 ward on his hand. Then the preacher took hope and waxed warmer, 
 telling Coon that one bar being down, to let down another, and see 
 how he would feel. To this Coon assented, and placed his face in his 
 hands and shut himself up like a jack-knife. Then the prtacher came 
 down in his grandest swoop, and cried : 
 
 " Now, Coon, de bottom bar 1 git down on your kne^s and open 
 it I" 
 
 Down went Coon upon his knees, and up went such a shout from 
 
 luua 
 
 ) hi A 
 was/ 
 
 fo N 
 
WLACK JOKES FOR BLUE E EVILS 
 
 the ijr*acher and his people as convinced outsiders that the bars wem 
 all oiowiu and that Coon was 
 
 " High Sudron Ground." 
 
 In California, the negro servant of an army officer punished another 
 wooly. Being asked why he did so, he said : 
 
 'De fact is, massa, dat are nigga was one ob dem New York free 
 niggers. He 'suited me. and I had to take high Sudron ground wid 
 
 fciin." 
 
 A Large " Bill " far a small Darlceg no mesi. 
 
 he 
 
 A Rise in Niggers. 
 
 pie Nashville (Tennessee) Gazette says : "A few weelra ago dunfcg 
 thp existence of the patrol regulations, and talk about nigger risings, 
 *r old negro man was found secreted in a piece of woods'a few miles 
 m town, evidently laboring under great fear and trepidation. On 
 wc J asked why he was there, he said he was afraid to stay al the 
 no ase where he belonged, and which was close by. 
 i' What are you afraid of?" was asked. 
 
 Why," he said, " Old Missus has gone to bed with a pistol on one 
 * a great big knife on the other, and I'm afraid she'll rue/" 
 
 A Nigger on a Stump. 
 
 im Wilson was one of the best pilots on the Missis- 
 sippi, but proud of his place and cranky, lie had 
 the misfortune to run his boat smack up agams> the 
 bank one morning, in a dense fog, and could see on- 
 ly a little nigger sitting on a stump, mulching a bi4 
 of corn bread. 
 
 " Whose place is this ? cried the jlot 
 " Massa' s," said the nigger. 
 " Well, who's your master?' 
 " Why, de gemman what owns de place," an- 
 swered the Lttle fellow. 
 
 You rascal!" roared the pilot, "I'd crop your ears off if I had you 
 .e!" 
 
 "Yes, but you ain't got me dar," shouted little tug. as the pilot 
 eked out and escaped from the shore and the wif of the boy. 
 
 bai 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 Exhibiting a Monkey. 
 
 " Sambo, why is yow legs like an organ-grinder f 
 
 11 Dunno ; gib it up." 
 
 " Case dey exhibit a monkey 'bout de streets." \ 
 
 Black Toast 
 
 A negro once gave following toast : 
 
 "De late Gubernor ob de State him come in wid berry HIM* ,of 
 ositicn, him go out wid none at all." 
 
 An Opening for " a nice young man " (colored.) 
 
 L 
 
 Taking Notes. 
 
 A great many years ago," when there were slaves in MassachuseWa! 
 and some of the best men in the community owned them, there ^^ 
 a clergyman in a town in Essex County, whom we will call Mr. Cc,^ 
 .well, who had an old and favorite servant by the name of Cuffee. l^g 
 (was often the case, Cuffee had as much liberty to do as he please^ ^ 
 anybody else in the house, and he probably entertained a high res] 
 for himself. Cuffee on the Sabbath might have been seen in 
 minister's pew, looking round with a grand air, and so far as appe 
 ance indicated, proating quite as much by his master's preaching 
 many others about him. Ouffee noticed one Sunday morning t 
 several gentlemen were taking notes of the sermon, and he determ 
 
 ed to do the same thing. 
 paper and pen and ink. 
 his pew, 
 
 So in the afternoon he brought a sheet 
 The minister, happening to look down ii 
 
 , could hardly maintain his gravity as he saw his negro "spre 
 his task, with one side of his face nearly touching the pap 
 aud hi* tongue thrust out of hip mouth. Cuffee kept it his not 
 
 out' 1 to 
 
 at 
 a- 
 ol 
 ito 
 ad 
 er, 
 
 38, 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILa 
 
 33 
 
 r, until the sermon was concluded, knowing nothing, and 
 ear/ing as little about the wonderment of his master. When the min- 
 jgtyBr reached home he sent for Cuffee to come into his study. 
 
 ( l< Well, Cuffee," said he "what were you doing in meeting this af- 
 ta* noon ?" 
 
 " Doing, Massa? Taking notes," was his reply. 
 1 You taking notes!" exclaimed the master. 
 " Sartin, massa ; all the gentleman take notes." 
 " Well, let me see them, said Mr. Cogswell. 
 
 / Cuffee thereupon produced his sheet of paper, and his master founo 
 ^scrawled all over with all sorts of marks and lines, as though a doe- 
 eiji spiders dipped in ink had inarched over it. 
 
 " Why, this is all nonsense," said the minister, as he looked at the 
 notes. 
 
 j" Well, maaea, reulied Cuffee, " I thought so all the time you 
 p, f caching. ' 
 
 /Sally Rice. 
 "Oh, Sally Rice, 
 I've called you twice, 
 
 And you lie and snore I 
 I pray you wake, 
 
 And see your Jake, 
 And ope to him the door or window 
 1 don't care much which, for 
 It makes but little difference 
 
 To either you or I 
 \ Big pig, little pig, 
 
 Root, nog, or die I" 
 
 Rice in Full Dress., 
 
% BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS- 
 
 A " Sparalized " Colored Pussoii. 
 
 ' A fine, robust, and well-dressed slave was arraigned for beiugl out 
 m the street after nine o'clock in the evening without a pass.Uod 
 being found drunk on the sidewalk. The policeman stated the c^ 
 when Tom's master interposed, and stated that it was the first U me 
 Tom had ever been drunk, and that he was a faithful and trustworthy 
 servant. The Mayor said it was too grave an oflence to pass by, a a 
 that he should be obliged to impose the heavy fine of twenty-fl v 
 dollars upon Tom. Before passing sentence Tom was called upon fo, 
 his excuse, which he gave as follows : 
 
 " Well, Massa Mayor, dis nigger was just gwme home from (,h e 
 meetin' of de Lord, strate and honest, and dat debble, Old Smit, si ^d 
 to dis nigger dat he had a leetle ob de best o-be-joyful in his shd )p) 
 and dat it would do dis nigger good, and make him jist the most h^p. 
 pined nigger in the whole South. So dis nigger took a suck, and j^s 
 nigger arter dat was 'mazing useless, and was tuke tuke <ie wd )r( j 
 can ? t gib 'em ; massa knows him but it don't come quite sparaM. e( j 
 dat's it and he knowed nothing at all dis morning dis old nigger 
 was laid out in de watchhouse, with his hat, dat massa gib him, mj )8 t 
 offoolry discum-fuzzled and dis nigger don't know nothing abou i t 
 dat's de trute, massa, as dis nigger hopes to die." 
 This eloquent pleading had due eflect upon the Mayor, who sai..j : 
 u Well, Tom, I will only fine you fine you five dollars this tinU 
 
 vhich you must pay or be" flogged. Tom looked the verv picture -,j 
 
 U-spair, but his master said he did not want Tom flonffed, and /| . 
 
 vould pay the fine himself and did so and old Tom was let ofl 
 
 lappy, joyous, and no doubt an improved nigger. 
 
 Colored Dust 
 
 little boy who had an "inquiring mind'' ca; 
 home from the Sabbath-school one day, and mep 
 ing his mother, the following dialogue took 
 
 "Mamma!" 
 
 " Well my dear." 
 
 " Mamma, the teacher says people are 
 dust" 
 
 " Yes, my dear, so the Bible says." 
 
 " Well, mama, are white people made 
 
 " Yes." 
 
 "Well, then, I s'pose colored people are 
 coal-dust, airit they?" 
 
 A Darkey's Security 
 
 Some few weeks ago I strolled into the counting-room of a frier 1 id. 
 He being absent I commenced a chat with his clerk, when a gocrxL- 
 looking " cullud pusson'' entered, dolled his castor, and said : 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 as' Bob, can you len' me a quarter till dis afternoon, and I 
 
 J'bu sartin V 
 
 <W Bob applied his dexter to his vest pocket, but it made "no 
 
 / I turned. 
 
 " Well. Buck, you look tolerably honest; but, as I don't know you, 
 if yjii will give me security, I'll lend you tne quarter." 
 'I'js eye brightened as he asked: 
 
 i Mas Bob, will y.ou go my s'curity ?" 
 " JYes," replied P" : V 
 
 forked over. Some time afterward, wenaing tne same way, as i 
 
 about to enter the office, the identical Buck stood before me. 
 ' ;Buck, where's my quarter ? You didn't pay as you promised " 
 'No, sah, but I give you sxurity." 
 " .Well, I want you to pay me I lent you the quarter." 
 " 'pat's true, sah ; but it am de custom down here to 'zaust tne 
 
 A Nigger's Idea of the Telegraph, 
 
 left, 
 
 1; 
 
 A ;t the railway depot in Lowell not long since, 
 "Look a hea, Jake," said Sambo, his eyes dilating and his rows ol 
 thming teeth protruding like a regiment of pearls, "Look a haa, Jake 
 wh U vou call dem ar ?" 
 
 "W*hat ar ?" rejoined Jake. 
 Dem ar I is pintin to." 
 ' Dem ar is posts," said Jake. 
 '} wii^t !" said Sambo, scratching his head ; dem ar poeta wid ic 
 
 es, de same idencical," returned Jake. 
 b, rr^t you **ees dera ar horizontal wires." 
 tP i* *erved Jake, " de rx.-sts support de wirew." 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUK DEVIL8. 
 
 " Gosh I I takes you nigger," ejaculated Sambo, clapping his 
 both setting up a loud yah yah. 
 
 " But what's de wires for ?" said Sarnbo, after a pause. 
 
 " De wires," replied Jake, completely staggered for a moment 
 . t a nonplus for a reply to the philosophic curiosity of brother 
 i o ; but suddenly lighting up with more than nigger fire, he said : 
 
 " De wires is for to keep the posts up'J" 
 
 Circular Work. 
 
 
 
 "Sambo," what's yer up to now a days?" 
 
 "(X I'se a carpenter and jiner." 
 
 "Ho ! I guess yer is. What department does yer perform, Sambo ] 
 
 " What department ? I does de circular work." 
 
 " What's dat?" 
 
 " Why, I turns de grinstone." 
 
 Genuine Ethiopian Serenaders, 
 
 Keep off dem Bricks. 
 
 A negro passing under a scaffolding where some repairs were goin/g 
 on, a brick Ml from above on his head, and was broken by the falL4- 
 Sambo v^ry coolly raised his head and exclaimed : 
 
 " Hallo, you white man up dar. if you don't want your bri'ks broke i, 
 just keep 'em off my head I" 
 
BLACK JOKES FOE BLUE DEV1L& 43 
 
 de Writing 
 
 * Massa," said the black steward to his Captain, as they fell in with 
 nomeward bound vessel, " I wish you'd write a few hues for me to 
 send to the old woman, because I can't write." 
 
 "Ceitainly," said the good-natured skipper, taking his writing ma- 
 terials ; " now what shafl I say ?" 
 
 Pompey told the story which he wished his wife to know, whicl: 
 lis amanuensis faithfully recorded. 
 
 " Is that all, Pomp ?" asked the Captain, preparing to seal the letter 
 
 " Yes, massa, replied he, showing his ivory, " tank you, but 'fore 
 f ou close him, jist say, please 'scuse bad spelling and writing, will ye '' 
 
 The Captain appended the postscript as desired." 
 
 " Defuss shalLbe lass and de lass shall be fuss." 
 
 N old negro in Connecticut, who had 
 always been very constant in attend- 
 ing church, and prided himself fur- 
 thermore in being the first there, 
 happened to be detained far beyond 
 the usual hour one morning. 
 
 " John," said CufFe, as he stood 
 carding his wool for the occasion, 
 " hab the kindness to tell me what 
 o'clock him be." 
 
 " Can't tell you, CufFe, de clock 
 I should tink it am pretty considera- 
 
 wouldn't be exprised if 'twar half an hour 
 
 top o' dat," returned Cuffe, and hurried to church 
 as fast as his bandy legs would carry him. He entered toward the 
 end of the sermon, just as the parson was reiterating the text for the 
 lost time : 
 
 "(The last shall be first, and the first shall be last _ 
 Cfuffe turned upon his heel, and went out, exclaiming : 
 "Dat means me ; I come last but Ise out russer, anyhow; de next 
 :im<b dis nigger goes late to meeting, he no go at all." 
 
 Bread and Butter. 
 
 " William Henry, I hab made up my mind to get married soon." 
 ," Why, who to, Gabe ?" 
 ," Well, de same old gal dat I've been going to see for dis last Ere 
 
 are." 
 
 1 Whai^-Aunie ?" 
 
 V Yes, my dear Annie. 
 
 "While belles dar lubly graces speak 
 And fops around dem flutter, 
 I'll be content wid Anna Bread 
 And won't hab any but her." 
 
44 BLACK JOKEfc FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Experimenting far Safety. 
 
 A man travelling, entered a tavern, and seeing no one present but 
 the landlord and a negro, seated himself and entered into conversation 
 with the negro. Shortly he asked Sambo if he was dry. Sambo said 
 he was. Stranger told him to go to the bar and take something at his 
 expense. Negro did go, and shortly left. Landlord says to the 
 trauger. 
 
 " Are you acquainted with that nigger? 
 
 " No, never saw him before ; bat why do you ask ?" 
 
 " I supposed so from your conversing with him and asking him to 
 Irink." 
 
 " Oh," said the stranger, " I vas only experimenting. The fact is 
 [ was dry myself, and I thoughi if your liquor did not kill the negro, 
 I would venture to take a drink myself." 
 
 Landlord's curiosity was fully satisfied. 
 
 Making Game of a Lady. 
 
 Mr. Peabody was in company wid his lady-lub last night, an' he 
 complimented her improved appearance. 
 
 "You am guilty ob flattery," said de gal. 
 
 " No, no," replied Peabody, " for I vow you am as plump as a par 
 tridge. 
 
 "At first," said de gal, "I thought you guilty ob flattery only, but 
 you is now actually making game ob me." 
 
 A Colored Gentleman. 
 
 IROIL Vulcan Vane, whose color is much too 
 dark to be politically orthodox, whose mouth 
 might be converted into a mammoth cave by tne 
 mere removal of his teeth, whose eyes were ol 
 the color of an East River log, whose lips \j?We" 
 got up without any regard to economy in meat, 
 whose feet were so diminutive that he could e[asi- 
 ly turn round in Union Park if the trees \^ere 
 cut down and the fences taken away, who \vas 
 in fact a huge darkey manufactured on a lit 
 scale, at a time when raw material was cheap 
 was brought up for being drunk and going u 
 sleep across Ludlow street, thus stopping the tide of navigation through 
 that odorous thoroughfare. 
 
 His dress was in the extreme ol fashion, as set by the aristocratic 
 leaders of the ton his panLs of the brightest green, his coat of (he 
 most conspicuous blue, the vest of the flashiest crimson, the necker- 
 chief of the most unmistakable yellow, and a check shirt adorned 
 with studs, which might have passed for gold if the gilding hauVt 
 been rubbed do wn to the 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 4 
 
 The uncleanly nature of the bed on which he had seen fit to stretch 
 his wearied limbs had, however, done something to mar the brilliant 
 effect of this gorgeous costume. The cerulean coat was not unprov- 
 ed by the gutter mud ; the pantaloons had not preserved unsullied 
 their pristine brightness amid the refuse of the market upon which 
 they had reposed; the remains of a too ripe peach was on his shirt- 
 collar; a decayed cabbage had left its imprint upon the resplendant 
 vest, and from his curly hair, peppered with the broken shells, emana- 
 ted the penetrating fragrance of eggs eggs, too, whose departed 
 youth and freshness had rendered them unfit for culinary purposes. 
 But amid his troubles, Mr. Vane preserved the dignified bearing and 
 flowery language of a person of some educational pretentions; indeed 
 he stated that he was "Perpetual President of the Colored Sons of 
 Genius," an association of kindred congenial literary men. His an- 
 swers to the questions of the judge proved that he had caught an ap- 
 proximate sound if not the exact sense of many words of larger di- 
 mensions than are generally in vogue among men of his condition and 
 complexion. 
 
 When brought to the stand he threw himself upon his scholarly 
 dignity and launched at the astonished judge worda of portentioua 
 length and sound, as if he intended to annihilate that estimable per 
 sonage by the sheer destructive power of the English language. 
 
 IROLlH 
 
 1 
 
 Juuge. What is your name? 
 
 Prisoner (with his thumbs in the armholes of hia vest) My cogno- 
 
 sir, is Virgil Vulcan Vane, Esq. 
 Judge. The officer says you were drunk yesterday. 
 Prisoner. I comphatica'uy denies that ; it was a misperception on the 
 tart of that bobno&ioua person. I know that acalawagiouo M. P to 
 
 li**"V v t ' 1 * 
 
 83 
 
46 BLACK JOKES FOIi BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 be an obitual drinhard his own self. My conduct, sir, i& open an aa 
 oyster, and I demands an expartial inscrutigation. 
 
 Officer. I found him drunk, lying down in Ludlow stieet 
 
 Prisoner. I indignantly expuderate the allogeration. 
 
 Judge. His allegation is probably correct; did you drink any kind 
 of liquor yesterday,Mr. Vane ? 
 
 Prisoner. I imbibed one modest squencher behind the door, sub 
 oeer, on the sly, in the corner, without anybody seeing; but it wasn't 
 nough to illtosicate a babee, it wasn't, on my sacrib honest. 
 
 Judge. Where did you get it? 
 
 Prisoner. Discuse me, sir, if I incline to answer that last inquisi- 
 tion you expounded ; I don't wish to discriminate myself, nor infure- 
 ate the bar-tender as occedary before it happened. 
 
 Judge. You must tell, sir. i 
 
 Prisoner. I can't ; k's exscrutinizing to my feelings. 
 
 Judge. If you don't answer I shall send you to the cells. 
 
 Prisoner. Well, if I must exscarificate my bowels of confession, 
 and let the pussy out of the pillow case, I'll do it ; but don't think I'll 
 bear it consignedly ; I'll complain of the maladministration of Justice 
 in this law shop ; I got my whiskey, sir, at Hannibal Jenk's in Watei 
 street 
 
 Judge. I shall fine you $10. 
 
 Prisoner. The cash can't be had, but you're all a set of the most 
 contemptuous vagaboduses that I ever went anywhere; I'll teu the 
 Mayor 
 
 Judge. Never mind now. 
 
 Mr. V. was led away in a stupendous rage. 
 
 " A Favor iU Placed is Great Waste." 
 
 Gbf 
 
 The Dark Side of Matrimuny 
 
 Lately, a slave in the United States who had been married tc an- 
 other slave by one of the missionaries, at the end of three weeks 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 brought his wife back to the clergyman, and desired him to take hei 
 fcgain. The clergyman asKed what was the matter with her. 
 
 " Why, massa, she no good. The book says she obey me. She no 
 do what I want her to do." 
 . The minister said : 
 j " But the book says you were to take her for better or for worse." 
 
 " Yes, massa, but she all worse, and no better. She ha'b too much 
 worse, and no good "at all." 
 
 Wenus in Contract with, Wirgo* 
 
 A Darkey Theologian. 
 
 An old negro near Victoria, Texa&, who was the only Baptist in 
 the neighborhood, always " stuck up for his own faith, " and was 
 ready with a reason for it, although he was unable to read a word. 
 This was the way he " put em down." 
 
 " You kin read, now, keantyou ?" 
 
 " Yes." 
 
 ' Well I s'pose you've read the Bible, hain't you ?" 
 
 " Yes?' 
 
 " You've read about John de Baptist, haint you?" 
 
 "Yes." 
 
 " Well, you never read about John de Methodvf did you f 
 ee I has de Bible on my side, den. Yah, ya-a-h 1 
 
 Monheyism. 
 
 " Ah^ Henry , y 5u ought to been up to de trainine;." 
 
 "Why, Reuben?" 
 
 "Caee dar was a berry witty auctioneer there, trying to sell ac 
 
 hand-organ. He was grinding out de music, and de crowd, in sport, 
 oegin to fro out pennies, when a countryman standing by, said : 
 
 ' ' Sir, you ought to hab a monkey.' 
 
 " ' My good feller,' said de auctioneer. ' so I had : step right up 
 ewe."' 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 A Tale of a Bear's Tail 
 
 Sam and Sambo, two hands on a farm, had a holiday, and started 
 for some fun in the woods. They soon came to a bear's cave deep 
 among the rocks, and lighted only by one hole above. They looked 
 in, and saw the young cubs at the bottom of the cave, and the moth- 
 er gone It was decided that Sambo should go in and seize the cuba 
 while Sam kept guard without. Sam was a little negligent and the 
 bear had time to squeeze into the hole. Sam seized her by the tail 
 nd held on like grim death. 
 
 " What for you make it so dark up dar, Sam?" cried out Sambo. 
 
 " Golly ! if the tail eotce loose. I guess you'll know putty well I" 
 
 A New 
 
 A negro had a severe attack of rheumatism, which finally settled 
 in his foot He bathed it, and rubbed it, and swathed it, but all to no 
 purpose. ' Finally te?.ring away the bandages, he stuck it out, and 
 with a shake of his fist over it, exclaimed: 
 
 "Ache away, den, ole feller; ache away. I shan't do nuffin more 
 fei yer dis chile ken stan' it as long as you ken; so, ache away!" 
 
 A Hen " Willa," 
 
 A negro, who was set to build a small hen-house, prefaced the job 
 by drawing after his rude manner, a picture of the proposed "hennery" 
 with a piece of chalk on a board. On being laughed at for making so 
 much fuss over so simple a matter, he replied : 
 
 "Ma^ga Wyman, when you had your Willa built, didn't you payde 
 ork'tect for a plan. Tend upon it, Massa Wyman, the Willa for the 
 hens won't be none the wuss for being skitched fust.' 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUK DEVILS. 49 
 
 How Sambo's Beauty was Ruined, 
 
 correspondent mentions that not long ago, while 
 sitting at an inn in Baltimore one day, when he 
 Iwas on his way to Washington, he was much 
 (struck with the singular appearance of an old 
 Guinea negro, " black as the ace of spades," who 
 was attending to some menial duty in the trav- 
 eller's room. His face was scarred and seamed, 
 his legs were dreadfully awry, and his hands 
 seemed almost turned wrong side outward, and 
 in form and color resembled, more than any one 
 thing else, the paws of a wild animal, or the hand* 
 of an orang-outang. Our informant inquired 01 
 Pompey what had occasioned these deformities. 
 
 " Wai, dey is beformities, massa, dat's fac'. Wai, den, I'll tell you 
 how dey come, mass. Good many years ago, I was in lub wid a 
 handsum black gal, and we was same as married; and one day I see 
 a nigger comin' out o' de house. I knew dat man, and ef I am a nig- 
 er I had my feelin's. I was full ob de debbil in my heart ag'in him, 
 'cos I know'd him, and I know'd where he worked e'yah! e'yah 1 
 He worked in a powder mill ; and next day I went up dar. I went 
 to de door and looked in, and dar I see him ; an' I took a coal o' fire 
 dat I had brought along and frowed it onto de floor. Good Gwacioua, 
 nassa, 'fore I could get away myself, dere was de biggeat flash o' 
 liglitnin' I ebber see, and dat was de last I know'd anyting 'bout dat bu- 
 siness for two months. 'Twould a-been all right, dough, but de man 
 dat was dar was not de nigger I fought ! He's a dead nigger, hisse'f 
 dougn, long ago; and I was glad ob it when he went, 'cos he always 
 looked at me as if he'd got de best ob it; and he did got de best ob it, 
 massa, dat's fac' ; for before dat crastrofree I was de hansumest nigger 
 dat dar was in Maryland- dat's sartin sure. E'yah ! e'yah 1" 
 
 Slack Diamonds. 
 
 " Yah ! yah ! yah 1 nigger, you talk so much 'bout your countifit 
 dollars, jes succeed to deform me why a counterfeit dollar ia like an 
 apple pie ?" 
 
 " 0, 1 drops de subject, and doesn't know nothing 'bout it" 
 
 " Ease it isn't current." 
 
 " 0. what a nigger! Why am your head like a bag of dollars?" 
 
 " Go away from me why am it ?" 
 
 " Kase dere's no sense (cents) in it" 
 
 " Well, you always was de brackest nigger I neber seed you alwayf 
 will have the last word." 
 
 Loud Talking 
 
 '' Reuben, I was up to camp meeting last month, and de minister 
 said: 'if de lady wid de blue hat, red hair, and cross-eyes, don't stop 
 talking so loud, she will be pinted out to de whole congregashunu" 
 
60 BLA.OK JOKES FOR BLUE DBVIIA 
 
 High Salary. 
 
 Pompey said he once worked for a man who raised hi w*ge 
 ftigK ^nt he could only reach them once in two years. 
 
 A Black Philosopher, 
 
 WHO ia known to the residents of Williamsburgh as "old Cooley." 
 ole^ is an artitt by profession, and has gained unqualified praise 
 from mouths of wisest censure " for the unrivalled manner in which 
 he handles the (whitewash) brush. But his praises are not to end 
 here for he is a universal genius, and his fame as a knight of the 
 aruah and bucket is eclipsed by his reputation as a lecturer. He lec- 
 tures nightly on the boat while crossing the river, and we suppose 
 there is not a male resident of Williamsburgh who has not listened to 
 a discourse from his lips. He does not confine himself to any one 
 subject His genius takes a wide range politics, religion, etiquette, 
 gastronomy, physiology, psychology, spiritualism, free-love, in fact a2 
 the exciting topics of the day, as well as every science that ever was 
 heard of, are discussed by him to his own perfect satisfaction, and to 
 
 (the huge enjoyment of his listeners, who look upon him as a very 
 Deuefactor during an ice blockade, the other day , while standing out- 
 sido on deck, our attention was attracted by outbursts of merriment 
 and shouts of applause in the cabin, and entering one we found the 
 Sur/pet of our sketch debating the subject of slavery with a severe 
 looking old gentleman, to whom Cooley was evidently a stranger, 
 "^ who seemed to regard the subject in a very serious light 
 
 I m astonished," he exclaimed indignantly, as we entered, "to 
 hear a man of color speak in favor of that bloody, cursed institution P 
 and then he added, after a short pause, " But I suppose you have 
 been a negro-driver at the South yourself, haven't you?" 
 
 "My dear, blessed, good friend, ' replied Cooley, patronizir.giy, 
 oat's a fantasmagorical idea dat you'b got into your head, an' yoo 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 61 
 
 better get rid ob it fas' as posserble. Bar's no use you talkin' 'bout 
 slabery at de Souf don't you trouble de Souf let de Souf take care 
 ob herse'f, and you take care ob yoursef. Dar no use talkin' bout 
 slabery at de Souf when dar's nuffin else but slabery all ober. De 
 hull United States aiiit nuffin else but a big sugar plantashin, worked 
 by slabes, an' de Preserdent am de oberseer. If we get a good ober- 
 seer, dat's all right but if we don't dar's no use crying about it, an' 
 you might's well lef de subjec alone, for dar's no use talkin' 'bout it. 
 STou jes let dese politishin fellers fite, and you keep yousef quiet. Be 
 Jke de still hog dat gits all de swill don't say nuffin as much as pos- 
 sible, but go on eatiu' allde time, an' den you'll hab a chance ob gittin 
 ome fat on yo'i ribs. Let 'em fite. an' quart, an' tear tings to pieces 
 what you spose I care for dat ? I jist stands still and looks on, and after 
 dey've fit, and fit, and fit. and kivered de walls all ober wid blood 
 an dirt, I goes in and does de white washin' for bofe parties." 
 
 Here the old gentleman attempted to get in a word, but it was no 
 use, for Cooley continued ; 
 
 "You jes mind you own bissiness take my advice don't you trou- 
 ble wid oder people's affairs. I 'member a berry int'mate friend ob 
 mine a member of Congress in Norf Carlina dat made a forchin by 
 minding his own bissiness, an' eberybody kin do de same ting if dar 
 amind to." 
 
 M Then why don't you mind your own business, instead of talking 
 here in a bad cause?" edged in the old gentleman, with severity. 
 
 "Ah, dat's a dift'rent matter," said Cooley, "we ain't all made alike 
 we musn't hide our own light under a bushel-basket we must all 
 do our duty in dis world. Ebery man's 'pinted for sumfin' I'm pinted 
 to lighten dese ignorant citerzens ob Williamsburgh, an' I don't know 
 what dey'd do widout me, an' dat puts me in mind dat I'd better pass 
 round dc hat." 
 
 But just at this moment the boat entered the slip, and Copley's au- 
 dience speedily dispersed, Cooley missed his vocation. He should 
 have been a lawyer. 
 
 A Commderfrum 
 
 "I say, Sambo, can you answer this conunderfrum ? Supposin' I 
 gib you a bottle ob whiskey, corked, shut with a cork; how would 
 you get the whiskey out widout pullin' de cork, or breakiu' de 
 x>ttle ? " 
 
 " I gibs dat up." 
 
 " Why, push de cork in Yah, yah I" 
 
 Noseology 
 
 |3f~ A gentleman asked a negro boy if he would take pinch ol 
 snuff. 
 
 " No," replied darkey, very respectfully, " me thank you Pomp 
 aose not hungry t" 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 Lawyer 3 and Wishes. 
 
 " Sam, wh j &m lawyers like de fishes ?" 
 " ( don't meddle wid dat subject, Pomp." 
 1 Wliy, don't you see, nigger, kase dey am so foud ob de toil. 
 
 Bones. " I say, Clem, what am dat what goes when de wagon 
 g'^JvS, stops when de wagon stops It am no use to de wagon, yet de 
 wasron can't go widout it?" 
 
 Clem. " I gubs dat up, Bones; can't begin to guess such er skyea- 
 tiferic illooseerdation. I gubs em up." 
 
 Bones. " Why, you jailer complexioned fool, de noise, ot course.' 
 
 Unblushing. 
 An insult to a negro to tell him ha hasn't as much color ae 
 
 usual 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLDK DEVIIA 
 
 63 
 
 .4 Da? key's Opinion of Monkeys. 
 
 LD Sandy turned to go forward, and I no- 
 ticed the tears coursing one after the other 
 down his wrinkled cheeks; and I heard 
 him say, in reply to some consolatory words 
 which Peterson was pouring into his ear : 
 
 "I knows berry well, George, dat you 
 knowledges more 'bout most tings dan wot 
 I does, but as to dat monkey's nothabing no 
 soul, 'taint no kind o'use for you to tell dis 
 nigger noting 't all about it, kase in regard 
 ob dat 'ticklar pint, dere arn only ONE what 
 knows and dat's de LOR' A'MIGHTY. 
 _ knows dare's dose as says de monkeys ain't . 
 
 no reason nudder. Go way, child! dey's got a heap more'n de 
 Common nig any day ob de seben. Why, it am more'n eight year, 
 George, sense I fust made de 'quaintance ob Jocko, kase you see we 
 was shipmates two cruises afore dis, and I nebber knowed him to do 
 nuthin dat a 'spectable monkey need be 'shamed ob doing., no how. 
 He war a little mischievyous, I allows, but den he nebber did a right 
 down mean onchristian act, no, nebber ! And so you see, George, I 
 b'liebes do I don't purten for to say sartin dat Jocko hab a soul jes 
 de same as you and I habs, and dat one ob dese days we be a-gwine 
 to meet agin in Daby Jones' locker, kase people may call 'em mon- 
 keys and brutes and dat, but I tinks dey's old-time people, I does 
 dat's wot I tinks !" 
 
 A Legal Point. 
 
 Jesse is of opinion that the following legal point is about as impor- 
 tant as many others, published on knotty questions of the law. 
 
 A few mornings since, one of our lawyers was startled from Ua 
 dreams of rich clients and fat fees by a loud knocking at his office 
 door. He opened the door, when a " gentleman of Africa," known 
 as Mariposa Jack, stood before him. 
 
 "Lookheah, Judge," said he, "I wants your 'pinion on a law 
 
 " Well, go on." 
 
 " S'pose a man brings some eggs to town, an' hires anudder nigger 
 to sell 'em, an' dat nigger can't do it, an' he gibs 'em to me, an' I loses 
 de money, kin he do anyting wid me ?" 
 
 The learned counsel putting on his wisest look, informed him that 
 he knew of no law to punish him. 
 
 "Yah! yah! " chuckled Jack, "I know'd he couldn't in de fust 
 place kaae de kas*i de eggs was rotten, anyhow Judge, when dm 
 you want your boots blacked ?" 
 
64 BLACK JOKES *OH BLUE DEVII. 
 
 Sable Wit. 
 
 SAMBO. What's dat mighty ting dar? 
 
 C4E8AB. Why, you blaok n ggeramus! dat ar' big ting am de float- 
 in' derrick. 
 
 SAM. What dat far, nigger? 
 CJBSAR. Dat tremenjus masheen am fur raising a berry jsrht arti- 
 
 dj 1 O / O 
 
 e, indeed. 
 
 SAM. A berry light article ? Go way, nigger how ycu make iat 
 Out? 
 
 C^BSAR. Why, Sam, dat ar masheen was made 'spressly ^ 
 pose ob raisin' de wind/" 
 
 Immense Sensation. 
 
 " 7' gwine to Prepare to Shout /" 
 
 r 
 
 An Alabama paper relates the following story: 
 
 For some time past the negroes of Marion have had a religious re 
 rival going on in the Methodist Church, and which we learn has re- 
 sulted in some good. The other night a ludicrous incident took place 
 
 which for a time threatened to mar the enjoyment of the darkies. 
 
 While everything appeared to be going to the entire satisfaction ot 
 the leaders of the meeting, a tall, black-looking son of Africa deliber- 
 ately rose in the congregation, and commenced pulling his coat off, as 
 if preparing either to thrash some darkey, or give the devil if he 
 were present, the best fight he could, preparatory to closing the meet- 
 ing. All eyes were turned upon the comical attitude of the darkey 
 and some of the more timid began to fear that a melee was about to 
 take place in the church. This, however, was not the case, for our 
 convert, perceiving the stir that was being made, and the apparent 
 agitation of the assembly, hallooed out at the top of his voice : 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS.' 
 
 ' Biedering and sisters, dou't be frightened ; Ts only gwine to pre- 
 pare to shout !" 
 
 Arid he gave one of those unearthly yells, which vibrated through 
 the church and shook the windows as though the house were falling. 
 The darkey had to make tracks, or to use the language of another 
 4arkey, was tumbled head foremost right out of the doors by some of 
 thr brethren. 
 
 A Colored Scrimmage. 
 
 HAR you get that chicken ? asked a colored woman 
 yesterday afternoon of another colored lady, who 
 was standing in the door of her house examining a 
 nice plump looking chicken. 
 
 " Whar did I get it? Why, I hatched it from a 
 egg, that's whar I got it" 
 
 " What ! that ar chicken ? 'Deed you didn't 
 That's my chicken. I'se been huntin for it That 
 ar gal of your cum to my house, and cause I wouldn't 
 let her have it, she stoned my house, she did." 
 
 " Well, I sent her to look for de chicken, and 
 you gave her sass, you did." 
 
 ' She guv me sass, yon means she said I stole 
 the chicken." 
 
 " Maybe you did stole de chicken. Don't know 
 as you's any too good." 
 
 " Look heah, nigga, does yOvi sinivate I stole dat 
 fowl?" 
 
 " No, I does not sinivate any such thing. Who 
 does you call nigga ?" 
 
 " 1 calls you nigga you is black 'nough, any 
 ^5" how, to be raal Guinea nigga Whar d'ye come 
 
 from?" 
 
 "Whar did I come from? Old Virginy! Whar's you from? 
 nigga ? " 
 
 " I is from nowhar, an' I wau'ts dat chicken. ' 
 
 " You tells de truff, now, anyhow; for you is neither white nor 
 black, and it's hard to say whar sich folks come from, sure nufE You 
 can' t have dis chicken, no how; so go 'bout your business." 
 
 "I wash for dat chick 3n, I did." 
 
 " Wash for dat chicken ! 1 cricftey ! What you waih for am, 
 h?" 
 
 " I wash shirts for 'urn, and iron 'em, too." 
 
 " Look here, you white, black, no color nigga from nowhar, whar 
 chickens wear shirts and have ironing done you is smooth as a flat- 
 iron, you is you lies too slick, you does. Go way, now, or I'D bust 
 your biler. I'll knock you into nowhar. I'll give you chicken. ! 
 you frnd of pot- pie ? There's a doenut for you. Chicken meat, ha 
 
 ~- 
 
6S BLACK JOKES FOR BLO bfiVrLS. 
 
 I'll show you what kind of meat a Virginny nigger's fist is made ot 
 There's a bunch of bones for you thars 
 
 " Get out de way, Guinea. I jump right down yo' throat!" 
 
 Backing off, and lowering their heads, they rushed upon eacu other 
 
 with the speed of a locomotive. Jerusalem! what a concussion. The 
 
 'Virginny nigger's" head was driven right into the other's skull, i< 
 
 eemed, for there it stuck. One head only was visible. There werf 
 
 wo heads an instant ago, and now there was but one. 
 
 There they stood , backing and filling, trying to disentangle them 
 elves. By this time the affair began to attract the neighborhood t. 
 the spot. The heads of both belligerents had become so enveloped in 
 shawls that neither of them could see. They held on to each other, 
 and clawed each other's clothes unmercifully, till finally the "nigga 
 from nowhar," reaching along the back of the other, seized that por 
 tion of the dress which covers the bustle, and cried out, holding her 
 fast by the wool with the other : 
 
 "Now, nigga, I's gwine tohav dat chicken, I is, or I'll 'spose you, 
 I will." 
 
 This was too much. She caved in, and a compromise was effected 
 chicken pot-pie for two. 
 
 Monsti ous } Spute. 
 
 er me tell you, Julius, I had a monstrous 'spute wid 
 massa dis mornin', down in de cotton patch." 
 "Wa, wa, wat you 'spute about?" 
 " Why, you see, Julius, massa came down da whar I 
 was hoeiu', an' massa he say squash grow best on sandy 
 ground, an' I say so, too; an' dar we spute about it for more'n one 
 hour!" 
 
 Berry Much Alike. 
 
 A confusion of the degree of comparison is told of a Jamaica negro 
 who went to announce to his master that he had been made the happy 
 parent of twins. 
 
 " One am called Sambo and t'other Caesar," he enthusiastically ex 
 Claimed ; and both so very much alike 'specially Sambo" 
 
 Political 
 
 Two negroes in Mobile met on the street the other day, and com- 
 menced discussion on the political topics of the day. One assumed 
 the ground of a Secessionist, and the otiier that of a Unionist They 
 argued for some time without shedding much light on the subject. 
 At, last Bob, the Unionist, asked Jake the Secessionist, if he could tel 
 him why dey was bofe alike? 
 
 'No, nigger, I don't tink dar is any answer to dat question." 
 
 "Well, I told you; we bofe go in for disunion," (this Union.) 
 
 1 Whew ! nigger, lef me quick !" 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOK BLOE 
 
 T/ie Three Wishes. 
 
 " You've saved my life/' the master said, 
 "At risk of yours, my faitliful Ned; 
 And that a service so immense 
 May not fail of such recompense 
 As lies in human means to make, 
 (Would mine were god-like for your sake I) 
 Three dearest wishes straight unfold, 
 Each shall be granted soon as told." 
 
 "Well, den," grinned Ned, with ivory show 
 
 " Since massa please to hab it so, 
 
 My firs' s'al be for for e'yahl 
 
 As much good old peach-brandy, sah, 
 
 As dis 'ere darkie an' his wife 
 
 Can jubilate in all dere life. 
 
 De nex' Virginia weed enough 
 
 For me to smoke an' her to snuff, 
 
 Till life's las mile stone s'al be past" 
 
 "It shall be so, Ned noAV the last!" 
 
 " De las' hem gorry ! ^\ me see 
 
 Wat s'all it in partic'lar be? 
 
 Oh I now I hab him chee, e'yah ! 
 
 A leetiemore peach-brandy, sahl" 
 
 ''Sal" Owning Dow*. 
 
 A travellei through Maryland relates an amusing account of a "col- 
 ored chorus" witnessed by him at one of the African churches. The 
 masculine darkies were arranged "like four-and twenty blackbirds all 
 in a row," cu one side, and the females on the other The latter com- 
 
6b BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 me^.eed the chorus with, " Oh, for a man oh I for a mansion in the 
 skied;" to which the former responded, ''Send down sal send down 
 utl send down salvation to my soul !" 
 
 A Loud Call. 
 
 "Mr. Squash, did you eber knew dat I was one ob dem actor 
 fellers?" 
 
 "No, Gumbo, I neber hearyyou was in de freater line." 
 " Oh, yes, Gumbo, I played a conspicuous part t'oder ebenin'." 
 "Why, Gumbo, what did you play?" 
 
 " I played Hamlet, and I got called out three times once by <k 
 Anager and twice by de constable. 
 
 A Few " Taters." 
 
 pious old negro, saying grace at the table, not 
 only used to ask a blessing upon his board, but 
 he would also petition to have some deficient 
 dish supplied. One day it was known that 
 Cato was out of potatoes, and suspecting that 
 he would pray for some at dinner, a wag pro- 
 vide. *nself with a small measure of the veg- 
 etables,, and stole under the window next 
 which stood the table of our colored Christian. 
 3oon Cato drew up a chair, and commenced: 
 - "O^ Massa Lord, will dow, indy provident 
 =|~ kindness, condescend tobress ebery ding before 
 ~us, and be pleased to bestow us a few tatere 
 
 and all de praise " 
 Here the potatoes were dashed upon the table, breaking plates and 
 upsetting the mustard pot. 
 
 "Dews "em," said Cato, looking with surprise, "only just luff 'am 
 down n k/etle easier next time." 
 
 Sable Conundrums. 
 
 " Well, Mr. Snow, I wants to ax ye one question 
 
 '' Propel deu, nigger. ' 
 
 "Why am agios -shop like a counterfeit dollar?" 
 
 "Well, Ginger, I gibs dat right up." 
 
 "Kase ye can't pass it" 
 
 ' Yah, yah, yah ! Nigger, you can talk so much 'bout your coun- 
 fit dollars, just succeed to deform me why a countifit dollar is lik 
 MI apple pie ?" 
 
 "O, I drops de subject and doesn't k^iw nuffin 'bout it" 
 
 " Kase it isn't currant. 
 
 '"Oh, what a nigger 1 Why am TCU- \x d like a bag of dollar* f 
 
 "Q'way from me why am it?" 
 
 M ,Kase dere is no sense (cents) ib >C 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 69 
 
 | 
 
 First and Second Bell 
 
 "Ouffee is that the second bell?' 
 
 " No, massa, dat's de second ringing ob de fuse bell We haba't 
 no second bell in dis hotel." 
 
 " Oh I Ah, Miss Lucy 
 
 See Saw. 
 
 say, Tom, Jim's death on wood. Did you ever see 
 him saw?" 
 
 " No, but I saw him see. Ha I ha 1" 
 
 " Dat's nothing. I saw him see saw. What you 
 go to say now ?" 
 
 " Why, dis dat if you saw him see-saw and I saw 
 him see, he must be a sau-cy nigger." 
 
 i I see you want to run a saw on me." 
 
 A SOUTHERN Adonis, not particularly celebrated 
 for his personal attractions, on completing a some- 
 what protracted toilet one morning, tarned to his 
 servant, and inquired: 
 " (Tow do I look, Csesar?" 
 
 " Tlendid, massa 'plendid !" was Ebony's delightful answer. 
 "Do you think I'll do, Caesar?" he asked surveying himself in a 
 
 -, and giving Coesar a piece of silver. 
 
 " (ruy ! massa, neber see you look so fierce in all my life. You 
 ;><>k jist as bold as a lion !" 
 
 " A lion? Why, what do you know about a lion? You never saw 
 me, Caesar." 
 
 " Neber see a lion, massa 1 Guy ! I see Massa Peyton's Jim ride 
 tie ober to de mill ebery day I" 
 " Wby, you fool, that's a donkey !" 
 
 ' Can't help dat, massa," paid Caesar, "you lookjislffct MmT' 
 The "colored compliment" was nut improved by the amendment, 
 
66 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Droll Scene in a Negro Church, 
 
 The New Orleans correspondent of the,New York Courier and En- 
 quirer relates the following as an actual incident during his visit to a 
 colored church : 
 
 Old Isaac's sermon was decidedly successful. His hearers paid fixed 
 and breathless attention throughout, breaking forth occasionally into 
 expressions of assent, or giving vent to their feelings in a well remem- 
 bered line of some cherished hymn, as he dwelt with rapture and with 
 streaming eyes on the unutterable glories of Heaven. It was the first 
 of a series of sermons that Isaac proposed to preach to them in accor- 
 dance with their invitation. In announcing his acceptance of the in- 
 vitation, he remarked: 
 
 " After der most serious debilitation, I have finally 'eluded Jo preach 
 der word unto yer. I don't ax you nary thing for my preaching, but 
 as it cost me something to come so far, and as I had no horse or mule 
 to fetch me. and as lam consequently obligated to hire one of a white 
 individual what lives in dat neat white-washed house just der oder 
 side of my mill, down by der hill der, which cost me one dollar, I 
 have thought it best to ax you, my beloved congregation, to detribute 
 one picayune apiece, and pay for my mule. I don't ask nary thing 
 for my preaching, only for my mule. Mr. Steward, you may pass 
 your nat or that of any other brother." 
 
 Josh, the steward, prepared to pass the hat and the colored "gem- 
 men' 1 made several desperate attempts to pull out their wallets, some 
 looking excessively surprised at finding no picayune within. One row 
 of negroes " detributed" each the amount requested. When Josh 
 pushed his hat over toward our party, we thrust in more than enougn 
 to pay for the mule, wishing to remunerate Isaac somewhat for the 
 preachings You can judge of our surprise when the hat was passed 
 to the next row, to see a great black fellow deliberately turn the con- 
 tents of the hat into his lap, coolly count them over, and having satis- 
 tied himself that there was a sufficent amount to pay for "der mule," 
 thrust his own bit back into his pocket., and with a foolish grin 
 towards us, passed the hat to the next. It is needless to say that no 
 more picayunes were "detributed" after that "back lick." The worst 
 remains to be told. After the benediction, the luckless contributors 
 
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 ruhed hastily forward and withdrew their deposits, and even com- 
 manded Josh to keep in reserve ail the surplus remaining after paying 
 for "der mule." 
 
 Same Old Drunk f 
 
 A gentleman, finding his servant intoxicated,, said : 
 
 "What! drunk again, Sam? I scolded you for being drunk last 
 mght, and here you are drunk again." 
 
 " No, massa," replied Sam, " same drunk same drunk, massa 
 
 A Musical Congregation. 
 
 At a church of color, the minister noticing a number of persona, 
 both white and colored, standing upon the seats during service, called 
 out in a loud voice : 
 
 " Get down off them seats, both white men and colored: I care, n 
 more lor one dan de odder." 
 
 Imagine the minister's surprise on hearing the congregation sudden 
 y commence singing, in short metre : 
 
 " Git down off dem seats, 
 
 Boff white man and color , 
 I care no more for one man, 
 
 Than I does for the other." 
 
62 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVIL& 
 
 Love Krtjot. 
 
 I ! YI 1 I see Joe down to de ball last ebemn. 
 
 and his lady-lub danced so hard dat she shook au 
 
 de buttons off ob her leg ob mutton slebes; says 
 
 she: 
 
 " 'Joe, tie dat slebe in a bow-knot' 
 
 " Den you ought to see Joe twist his mou^ and 
 
 exclaim at de same time: 
 
 " Ah, my lub, I wish to de Lord it was de con 
 
 Made a Fool ob Him. 
 
 " Pete has been courtin' a gal for some time past, and she Las ofteE 
 promised ,0 marry him ; so de oder ebenin' Pete said to her : 
 " ' Do you intend to make a fool ob me ?" 
 " 'Oh, no," replied de gal, "nature has saved me de trouble." 
 
 A Nigger at a Dance 
 
 laberal knot." 
 
 The happiest man in the world is supposed to be "a nigger t t 
 !nce." In our opinion this rule is too limited. A nigger is not only 
 iappy at a dance, but in every position. A darkey may be poor, but 
 ie is never low-spirited. Whatever he earns he invests in fun and 
 ieviltry. Give him a dollar, and in less than an hour he will lay 
 (even shillings of it out in yellow neck-ties or a cracked violin. There 
 ta something in an African that sheds trouble as a duck will water. - 
 Who ever knew a " culled pussun" to commit suicide ? The negro U 
 strongly given to love and jealousy ; but he has no taste for arseoia 
 He may lose his all by betting against a roulette, but he don't find 
 relief for his despair as white folks do, by resorting to charcoal fumes, 
 or a new bed-cord, but by visiting "de fair sex," and participating in 
 the mazy influence of^jde' oec'pntal convolutions of der clarinett' 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVIL& 63 
 
 Jumping through a Stone Wall. 
 
 A negro preacher, holding forth to his congregation upon the sub- 
 ject of obeying the commands of God, said : 
 
 " Bredren, whateber God tells me to do in dis ya book, (holding 
 up the Bible) dat I's gwine to do. If I see in it dat I must jump troo 
 a stun wall, I'm gwine to jump at it. Goin' troo 'lonsrs to de Lord 
 urnping at it 'longs to me." 
 
 Take lat Man in. 
 
 fciP A gentleman of Norfolk, Va., had a fine negro to whom he 
 gave the privilege of hiring himself out , and keeping one-half the 
 wages. A short time since, the negro came home to his master to 
 tell him that the man for whom he had been working wished to buy 
 him, and would give $1,300 for him. 
 
 ;' Well," said his master, what of that? I don't wish to sell." 
 " But you see, massa," said Sam, ' I'se had a cough some time, and 
 'specs I'm gwine into desumption. I don't 'spec I shall last more'n 
 two or three years, and I'd like to take dat man in.,' 
 
 Axe-ing the Lord. 
 
 DARKEY set to work to cut down a very tough tree, 
 but his axe flew back some time with but little 
 effoct. A storm occurred meantime, and a crashing 
 shaft of lightning shattered a huge oak to splinters 
 near him. 
 
 ''Bress de Lord I' 1 exclaimed Sambo, "dat weD 
 done. 'Pose you try dis one nex; guess you got 
 your match, massa 1"" 
 
 Highly Colored Ideas of Heaven. 
 
 A negro woman was relating her experience to a gaping congreg* 
 tion of color, and among other things she said she had been in heaven 
 One of the ladies of color asked her: 
 
 " Sister, did you see any black folks in heaven ?' 
 Oh, get out ! you s'pose I go in de kitchen when I was dar ?" 
 This reminds us of the anecdote of another colored man, who wai 
 o convinced of the lowliness of his position, and that labor was a 
 natural lot, that he even was indifferent as to a future state, believing 
 that "dey'll make nigger work, even ef he go to Hebben." A clergy- 
 man tried to argue him out of this opinion, by representing this not 
 to be the case, inasmuch as there was absolutely no work Tor him to 
 do in heaven. His answer was : 
 
 "Oh, you g'way, massa, I knows better. If dere's ns work foi 
 culled fokes up dar, dey'll make 'em shub de cloud* alonj. You can't 
 fool this chile. 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 Geography Colored. 
 
 PHRAIM, can you teJ me how de worlfl 
 
 am bounded?" 
 
 " Oh, yes, it am bounded on de norf by 
 de Niagara mountains, on de souf by de 
 Penciltuck Riber, on de east by sunrise, and 
 on de west by large quantities ob swine." 
 
 "Well, Bones, does you know anyting 
 about de seasons?" 
 " Oh, yes, Sam." 
 
 "Well, how many seasons am dar? and 
 what is dey ?" 
 
 "Well, dar am four seasons vinegar, 
 
 pepper, salt and mustard." 
 
 'Oh, shawl dem aint de seasons dat I mean." 
 
 " Well, demV de only seasons my mudder eber uses !" 
 
 " White Folks Blame Fools." 
 
 A friend of ours, near Tampa Bay, in Florida, employed a tnmber 
 of New York mechanics to do a piece of work. It was a government 
 contract, and required particular dispatch. The men worked as north- 
 ern mechanics know how to work. Old Jupe one of their employ- 
 er's slaves watched them, out of the corner of his eye, for several 
 days. Something was evidently working in his mind, which puzzled 
 him badly. At last he came up to the foreman of the gang, and said 
 
 "Massa Charles, what a debbil you all work for so, eh?' 
 
 " To earn money, Jupe." 
 
 "Moneyl" said Jupe, "money great ting. You work so Norf, Maw 
 Queries?" 
 
 "Yes, Jupe." 
 
 " You make a great deal money ?" 
 
 " Not a great deal, Jupe ; spring, summer, and fall we do well, but 
 work is slack in winter time, and if we get round again to spring and 
 make both ends meet, and keep the wife and baby in something to 
 eat and drink, and a house to shelter them, we generally think we 
 have done well." 
 
 " S'pose you sick, Mass' Charles, who take care of you ?" 
 
 " Then work stops, and we get very poor, and suffer great priva- 
 tions," 
 
 " Dat'll do, Mass' Charles," said Jupe. " I thought white folks sen- 
 sible people 'taint nuffin of de sort Work, work, nuffin but work; 
 get sick, and nobody take care eb 'em. White folks blame fools. Jupe 
 work, too. Nebber hurt himself workin', though. Jupe get sick. 
 Miss Sallie come down and nurse him. Mass' Bob send a boat aeb- 
 enty miles up de riber to get wnue doctor for him. Norf good 'nough 
 to- white folks, but reckon old Jupe stay at home." 
 
 ^ jad old Jupe went off in a state of dignified disgust at the fofly ol 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. ee 
 
 white folks generally at the North, and a particular determination tc 
 do as little work himself as possible f\ determination which his mastei 
 eays, Jupe was never known to break. 
 
 A Colored Preacherman on Hard Times. 
 
 EAR GRUMBLERS : In 'cordance wid 
 my promise, I will spoke to you dis eb- 
 enin' on de perwaih'n epidemic ob de 
 day. You will find my tex on de tonga 
 ob etery body in de community from 
 Bill Astor down to the limekil man. It 
 am written in unmistakable characters 
 and deep lines on the phiz's ob de poor, 
 and in de anxious faces ob de rich. It 
 am none as HAKD TIMES. 
 
 hard times" tinks the merchant's lady, as she alights from 
 her carriage, decked in a two thousand dollar set ob diamonds, thous- 
 and dollar set ob iurs, hundred dollar dress, and delicate Opera cloak 
 It's hard times husband couldn't afford no greater display, times an: 
 so berry hard. 
 
 " It's hard times" says the buckish clerk in the Shanghie coat, ag 
 he orders oysters and champagne " Two dozen oysters cooked in 
 warious ways, and only one half pint bottle ob Hidesick ; times is 
 hard, and I can't afford luxuries." 
 
 " It 'shard times," says de feller as he pours down brandy at a shillin' 
 a glass. " De Lord only knows what we am coming to." 
 
 " It's hard times," says de fop to de tailor, and you must wait 
 " Hadn't you better wer out your ole close ?" says de tailor, "till your 
 nuances improbe a little, and de times git softer?" "Can't afford it," 
 SAYS de fop, " must hab de Shanghie. I can't afford to lose my posi- 
 tion, and look as doe I worked for a libin." 
 
 " It's hard times" say* de capitalist, as he buttons up he coat I 
 guess I'll lock up what gold and silver I hab in a wait, and luff no 
 man hab it, kase all de noosepapers says it's hard times and wis a 
 comin'. I'll lock up my money, kase dere am no noein who to trust" 
 " Its hard times" says de Bank fellers, who hab bin libin too fast 
 "and I must eder retrench or Skiler. I can't retrench and go in good 
 society arterwards, but I can default, and in two seasons all am for 
 gotten. I'll Skiler kase it pays best ' 
 
 "We must take advantage ob de times," says de business man, ''and 
 cut down de wages ob de workman now is de time, when 
 noosepapers, pread:ermen, lawyers, and eberybody am crying hard 
 times." 
 
 So down goes de wages, and down comes de tears ob de workman's 
 children tor bread at de same time so you see de poor man and nil 
 family do al! de suHerjn' and de rieh all de jawin'. Dere am no mis- 
 ke, de times am HO hnrl you can bite it 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUE DBV1LB. 
 " The Lily of the Valley," 
 
 ft COLORED "REVIVAL 
 A Brace of Perplexed Darkies. 
 
 The Savannah Republican tells the following good one : 
 
 Yesterday, as two athletic darkies were engaged in tumbling about 
 a bale of cotton on the dock, a mysterious voice, appearing to proceed 
 from the interior of the bale, exclaimed 
 
 " Don't toss me about so hard !" 
 
 " Bress de Lor', who dat ? War you ?" exclaimed one of the dark- 
 ies, as both let go their hold, and stood aghast 
 
 " Inside the bale," responded the voice. 
 
 " Joe," rejoined one of the negroes to his companion, " de debil it 
 about, sure ;" and then collecting himself somewhat, he addressed the 
 gewed-up man : 
 
 " How you come thar ?" 
 
 " Put in dar at the plantation, make out the last bale," replied the 
 voice inside. 
 
 "I golly, Joe, you hear dat? What'll buckra-man do next? Well, 
 f ou'se got to go alonsr wid de bale to de cotton-press, an' you will be 
 packed den, sure," said one ot the knignts of the hook, and both set 
 to work again at their job. 
 
 Just then loud cries of "Murder! Murder!" proceeded from the bale, 
 when the darkies, convinced that "de debil" was really about, dropped 
 everything and took to their heels. 
 
 The comedy was highly enjoyed by some friends who were stand- 
 ing around with Signer Blitz, wl had gone down to look after 
 cage of canaries that can* 3 out by the Florida. 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DKVJL& 
 
 Hiyhfuht lin. 
 
 OOK here, Ginger; I went oat riding todei 
 day, and 1 stop'd at one ob de principal ho- 
 tels, when I seed a great many gents ob color 
 on de stoop ; so I ordered de boy, and give him 
 some mighty high orders, ca&e I wanted de 
 darks on de stoop to hear my elemquence. 
 I told de boy to extricate the quadruped from 
 de vvchii'lc, donate him, give him a sufficient 
 supply of alimentary food, uud when de aurora 
 morn breaks forth t.hough the oriental horizon, 
 1 will reward you with a peculiar compensa- 
 tion, according to your very peculiar merits,." 
 
 " Well, what did he say to such high language?" 
 
 ' Why, he went in de house an<l told de landlord dat dar was a 
 Duti-liman outside, and he wanted a pint of lager-beer. 
 
 Draw it Mild, 
 
 Bill Jenkins and his wife hab been travelling lately, and while dey 
 was hastening fro a wood, dey met wid a melancholy accident, which 
 Jiukuis' wife told to me in de following felicitous strain 
 
 " Aud while retreating fro de woods, 
 
 And fro de tangled fern, 
 
 He tore his mustu't-mention-'em, 
 
 And had to put on hern 1" 
 
 A Gal-lant Boy. 
 
 '' Here, Bill, you young rascal, walk up and gib an account ob your- 
 >lf~ wear hr.li you been?" 
 " A Her de gals, fader." 
 
 " Did you eber know me to do so when I was a boy ?" 
 " Mo, sir, but mother says she did." 
 
 A Black Naturalist* 
 
 " Johnson, we caught a nigger last right robbin' the henroost, and 
 dis morning we took him afore de Squire, and on examinin' him, 
 found dat he had greased his feet so dat he shouldn't make any noise 
 when he went to steal de chickens; an' while he was on one ob de 
 roosts, lie uecidentally slipped off into de custody ob de owner. De 
 Squire axed him what was de reason for his being dar, and he aaid he 
 only come dar to see if de chickens sleeped wid dar eyes open. Ah, 
 t was no use, he was coope/." 
 
 Ear for Music. 
 
 "Say, Sam, hab you got an ear for music?" 
 "Yes. indeed I is. honey, I'se got tvo ob 'em." 
 " 80 has de mule, Samuel." 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Lift it the SU Nictwlas 
 
 INGER, you habn't been 
 
 long m the city, I under- 
 stand." 
 
 " No, sir, I hab just arrib- 
 ed from de country " 
 
 "What part, Ginger?" 
 
 "Well, I'm from Horse 
 Heads, Mud county, near de 
 great Breakneck Railroad ; 
 I got in day afore yester- 
 day." 
 
 "Where do you stop, 
 Ginger?" 
 
 " Oh, evey where whar dey 
 keep money in de winows." 
 
 " No, no, I mean whar do 
 you put up?" 
 
 " Well, at present I hold 
 out at de St. Michaelmas 
 Hotel." 
 
 " Oh, no, Ginger, dey don't 
 allow no niggers dar. ' 
 
 " Well, I didn't go dar aa 
 
 a nigger," 
 
 " You didn't ?" 
 
 
 
 " No, I went dar as a Creole ; de fust day I was dar, I see a berrj 
 curious thing ; one ob de waiters come out wid a big round thing, h 
 drawed off wid a drumstick and gib it such a struck.' 
 
 " Why, that was a gong." 
 _ Yes, I was gone de minute he hit it" 
 " Where did you go ?" 
 
 I " Why, I went right in to dinner ; one lady asked me t / pass the 
 batter ober to her." 
 
 "Well, did you?" 
 
 " No, de butter was so strong dat it walked right ober itself; one 
 ob de waiters axed me if I would hab some shanghai berries and hen 
 iriit ; I didn't know what he meant, aad he told me dat dey was 
 eggs; I declined, and den dey axed me if I would try some cylinder 
 escapement and lepinc pies. I thought I would take a pie^e just for 
 <!e novelty ob de ting, and he said : 'Well, you'll getdem U. all Dutob 
 groceries ; they are very thin, ar.d not much works in 'em. 
 
BLACK JOKI>>- Foil BhUK DKV1LS 69 
 
 A Burlesque. Darkey Auction Sale. 
 
 OWN up')[i she New Orleans, levee, the other 
 day, a large nurnber of jolly darkies having no 
 .work to tin. anil ill-siring some fun to while away 
 ! the time, one uf them, selected tor his tor.guey 
 'qualities, mounted a box, and in good set auction- 
 eer's phrase, a:!M:i!:i-ed to the "cullud pussons" 
 that IK- was now about to oiler them for cash, "to 
 e highis bidder in dis crowd, a lu.s rate boy, A 
 I, soun' au' healt'y, an' warranted not to cut in 
 de eye, balk in de step, nor steal chickens that 
 don't 'long to him ; also, 'ditional. did boy war 
 only one par a shoes a year, an' deys good at de 
 eend of it; takes keer on his dose in partieler, an' neber goes cortin' ; 
 don't go to sleep ober his work, is 'speekful an' 'bedent; is six foot 
 tree inches high, weighs two hundred an' twenty pouns, an' can do 
 more work in house or fiel' dan any two niggers; 'sides, he eats 
 less dan any one nigger. Step up hyar, Sam, an' show yourself to 
 dese gemmea Libely, now! Dar he is, gemmenl 'Mire him for 
 yourselves !" ^ 
 
 And the sable auctioneer pointed with a triumphant gesture to the 
 subject of this extravagant eulogium a scrubby, knotty, runted, gray- 
 headed specimen of a field hand, about four feet and a half high, who 
 mounted the box beside him, amid vast roars of laughter from the 
 crowd. 
 
 " Dar he is getnmen zamine him, an' start him at suffin, for he 
 runs' be sole. What does you say?" 
 
 Several colored geinmen mounted the stand, and proceeded to 
 "y.arnine'' him. One violently pulled his mouth open, and re- 
 ported : 
 
 "Dis nigger not sound one jaw toof done gone." 
 Another tried to straighten out alock of hig wool, with' 
 ' Don't like dis har kink too much nigger lazy." 
 Another pretended to discover something besides ideas running 
 through his wool, and concluded : 
 
 " Nigger's head too poplar" (populous.) 
 Another said : 
 
 foot too long and slim long foot nigger will steal an' 
 run away ; long foot nigger aiu't worf jail fees." 
 
 "Nigger's to < nail* too long, a scratch paint off my parlor floor I 
 No wants dis nigger. Yah! hy -ah 1 Yah! yah!" 
 
 " Well, genunen, is yon done looking at dat nigger ? Is you satisfy ? 
 He's a prime lot W'h.-it. do you say Ibi de boy? Starthim atsuflin 
 He's got to be sole prumptory e 
 
 " Ten cent!" came from the laughing crowd. 
 
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 BLACK JOKKS FOR E'.TJK DEVILS 
 
 " Ten cent ten cent ! Going at ten cent ten ten ten." 
 
 " One dime," from the crowd. 
 
 " Tank you, sar. One dime, one dime, one dime g-o-i-n' at one 
 dime d-i-m-e. Too bad, gemmen, make me sacfize dis artikel dat 
 way. Say 'leben?" 
 
 " One bit," from the crowd. 
 
 "Much 'bliged, sar! One bit, one bit, one bit, bit, bit, bit; goin' 
 goin', won't nobody say 'leben for dis A 1, warranted &c., toy ? goin 
 t one bit goin' g-o-i-n' gone at ten cent 1 Yours, sar, an' a dog 
 ight more dan he's worf!" 
 
 And he "knocked down" the property to the laughing purchaser, 
 with a tremendous blow on the head with the barrel stave he used as 
 a "hammer" which broke it in the middle, and "knocked down" the 
 sold party off the box without his apparently feeling the blow, so 
 massive was the conformation of his cranium. 
 
 That (says the reporter of the above scene) was the greatest auction 
 gale that we ever saw. 
 
 Miss Phillisie and her Puppy. 
 
 Miss Phillisie was out promenading toder day, and she spoke to her 
 favorite dog, "Come along, sir," when all at once BillJohnson stepped 
 up 'longside, and said to her so berry perlite : 
 
 " Was it me, Miss, dat you called ?" 
 
 "No, sir-ee 1" said Phillig, " it was anoder puppy I was speakin 1 
 
 to.' 
 
 Hal ha I de dear lam ! dat was a settler for Johnson. 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Tl 
 
 A Colored Philosopher 
 
 AVENDER CROW A colored i in, 
 
 whose legs have been cut off abc ve he 
 .knees, heard a couple of ladies comniis ;a- 
 \ing his condition the other day, when h* 
 
 turned to them, and said : 
 
 " Why, Missus, you couldn't do fii 
 
 without breaking your backs a stoop ii 
 
 down.'' 
 
 Moral. Whole legs are not essential to 
 
 happiness, though a contented spirit n*y 
 
 be/ 
 
 Modesty in the Dark. 
 
 "Pompey, we got a berry modest gal 
 ilown to our house. Missus wanted her 
 ,to sleep up in her sewing room last night, 
 and de gal objected to do BO, case dre 
 . . ._ a cushion on de table wid needles in it." 
 " Why was dey so objectionable, Ginger?" 
 " Because she said dat de needles had eyes." 
 
 A Millerite Miracle, 
 
 In a little village, in the State of Hoosierana, in the year 1844, 
 there was all sorts of excitement concerning the doctrines and prophe- 
 cies of that arch-deceiver Miller. For months the midnight cry fol- 
 lowed by the morning yell, had circulated through the village ud 
 surrounding counties. The night of the third of April was the time 
 agreed upon out west here for the grand exhibition of "ground Mid 
 tofty tumbling," and about ten o'clock of the said night, numbers of 
 the Millerite.? assembled on the outskirts of the town, on a little e>i- 
 nence, upon which the proprietor had allowed a few trees to stand. 
 lu the crowd, and the only representative of his race present, wa a 
 free negro, by the name of Sam, about as ugly, black, woolly, lud 
 rough a descendant of Ham as ever baked his shins over a kitchen 
 fire. 
 
 Sam's head was small, body and arms very long, and his legs bwe 
 a remarkable resemblance to a pair of hams ; in fact, put Sam <m. 
 horse, his legs clasped round its neck, his head towards the tail, *nd 
 tiis arms clasped round the animal's hams, and at ten paces off you 
 would swear he was an old set of patent gearing. 
 
 The leader of the Milleiites, owing to an "ancient grudge he *>ore 
 him," hated Sam like smoke, and had done all in his power to present 
 his admittance among the "elect," but all to no purpose ; Sam would 
 creep in at every meeting, and to night here he was again, dre$>sU in 
 a white robe of cheap cotton, secured to his body 1-v beJ*> Md i " 
 ing and praying as loud as the best 
 
It BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Now, on the morning of the third, a genius named Cabe, had vrth 
 a deal of perseverance, and more trouble, managed to throw a half- 
 inch hemp cord over the branch of an oak which stretched its long 
 arm directly over the spot where the Millerites would assemble; one 
 end he had secured to the body of the tree, and the other to a stump 
 some distance off. About ten o'clock, when the excitement was 
 getting about "eighty pounds to the inch," Cabe, wrapped in an old 
 beet, walked into the crowd, and proceeded to fasten in as secure a 
 nanner as possible, the end of the rope to the back part of the belt 
 which confined Sam's robe; and, having succeeded, "sloped" to join 
 some of his' companions who had the other end. The few stars in the 
 sky threw a dim light over the scene, and in a few moments the voice 
 >f Sam was heard, exclaiming 
 
 " O Lor ! I'se a goin' up ' Who-o-oh !" 
 
 And, sure enough, Sam was seen mounting into the "etherial blue, 
 his was, however, checked when he had cleared terra firma a few 
 eet "Glory!" cried one; " Hallelujah I" another, and shrieks and 
 /ells made night hideous ; some fainted, others prayed, and not a few 
 dropped their robes and " slid." 
 
 Now, whether it was owing to the lightness of his head, or the 
 length and weight of his heels, or both, Sam's position was not a 
 pleasant one ; the belt to which Cabe's cord was attached was bound 
 exactly round his centre of gravity, and Sam swung like a pair of 
 scales, head up and heels down, heels up and head down, at the same 
 time sweeping over the crowd like a pendulum, which motion was 
 accelerated by his strenuous clapping of hands and vigorous kicking 
 
BLACK JOKES FOR BLOB DEVILS. 
 
 ta 
 
 At length he became alarmed ; he wouldn't go up and he couldn t 
 come down ! 
 
 ' Lor a massy I" cried he, "jest take up poor nigger to urn bosom, 
 or lef him down again, easy, easy. Lef him down agin, please um 
 Lor, and dis nigger will go straight to um bed ! Ugh-h !" 
 
 And Sam's teeth chattered with affright, and he kicked again more 
 
 "igorously than before, bringing his head directly downward and hia 
 
 eels up, when a woman shrieking out, " O, brother Sam, take me 
 
 yith you !' sprung at his head as he swept by her, and caught him 
 
 oy tne wool, bringing him up " all standing." 
 
 "Gosh! sister!" cried Sam, "lef go urn poor nigger's har !" 
 
 Cabe gave another pull at the rope, but the additional weight was 
 too much ; the belt gave way and down came Sam, his bullet-head 
 taking the leader of the &aints a "feeler" just between the eyes. 
 
 " Gosh ! is I down again ?" cried the bewildered Sam, gathering 
 hiraselt up. " I is, bress de Lor! but I was nearly dar, I seed de 
 gate!" 
 
 The leader took Sam by the nape of the neck, led him to the edge 
 of the crowd, and giving him a kick, said: 
 
 "Leave, you cussed baboon! you are so ugly Iknowcdthey wouldn't 
 let you in !' 
 
 How Julius Bow-shanks Courted Dinah Fattibum. 7n By 
 
 ronial Vsrse. 
 
 was airly on a summer's morn, 
 
 While standin' nigh a silent mill, 
 I seed her take a paff dat led 
 
 Directly up de big green hill 
 Two milkin' pails war in her grasp, 
 
 And as she tripped along, 
 I tort dat form I'd like to clasp, 
 
 Or make de burden ob a song. 
 
 She had a little stream to cross, 
 
 Dat run in bubbles nigh de road ; 
 I boldly stepped to her and axed 
 
 Ef I might help her wid her load. 
 She raised her great big eyes on me, 
 
 Dat shine as bright as eb^nin' star, 
 And set de pails down on <.e mass, 
 
 And said she raly didn't <M\ 
 
 I fust set boff de pails across 
 
 And den come back for she, 
 A ad lifting her up by de waste, 
 
 She trembling cross'd de plank wi me. 
 
BLACK JOKES POH BLUE DEVII& 
 
 When I clasped her in my arms, 
 
 I found her lims was berry stout, 
 But good fresh milk and corned pork 
 
 Am sure to bring sich tings about 
 
 When we reached de odder side, 
 
 We boff set down togedder, 
 I pressed her hand 'twixt boff ob mine, 
 
 And found dem like sole ledder. 
 Dere war gum bilea on ebery jint, 
 
 From little finger to de t\jmb, 
 But oh 1 her eyes bewitched me so ! 
 
 Deir beauty almost struck me dumb, 
 
 Upon de side ob dat old hill 
 
 I spent de happiest hour 
 Dat mortal eber could suppose 
 
 Was in a mortal powei. 
 For oh 1 in dat brief space ob time 
 
 I lost and gained a hart, 
 And I tink forde time it took, 
 
 'Twas bein' pretty smart 
 
 Don't Touf 
 
 Making an Apology. 
 
 Hudolph says that once upon a time a colored cook expected 
 pany of her own kind, and was at a losa to entertain her friends. 
 Her mistress said : 
 
 "Chloe, you must make an apology." 
 
 "Good Lord! missus, how can I make it? I got no egga, no 
 butter, nor nothing to make it with." 
 
 ~ c - ... rill IJJj 
 
BLACK JOKSS FOU BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 Tl 
 
 Colored 
 
 OBODY HURT. The origin of the deadlt 
 feud appeared to be as one of the seconds 
 stated that one of the parties "was crossed 
 in lub by de oder, and dat him hona must 
 hab satisfaction." The proceedings on the 
 field of battle were as follows : 
 
 After having taken their stands one of 
 the seconds noticed that owing to then 
 positions, the sunbeams set his principal to 
 winking and rolling his eyes. This was 
 sufficient ground for interfering, and h 
 calls out to the other second with : 
 
 " I say, I puts my weto on that possi- 
 shun it's agin de rules ob all de codes of 
 hona dat I see. De fraction of the sun 
 shines rader too sewere, and makes my 
 
 principal roll him eyes altogedder too much." 
 
 ' \Vy, wy, look here, didn't we chuck up a dollar for de choice ol 
 ground, and didn't I get him myself?" 
 
 "Yes, I know you did, but den fair play is a rule, and I'se no no- 
 tion of seein' my friend composed upon, and lose all the vantage." 
 
 " Well, I'ae no notion as you is, and 'sists on settlin* the matter 
 iust as we is and " 
 
 At this juncture a friendly cloud settled the matter at once, by 
 stepping in between the sun and the belligerents. The principals 
 took their position, and all the little preliminaries being settled, each 
 one took his pistol, ready cocked, from his second. Both manifested 
 a terrible degree of spunk, although a sort of blueish paleness over- 
 spread their black cheeks. The second who was to give out the fatal 
 onli-r which might send them out of this world, now took his ground 
 \aising his voice, he began : 
 
 "Gemmen, your time .am come." 
 
 Hoth signified tlieir assent 
 
 " Is you ready ? FL-'h ! one, two, three." 
 
 Bang, pop, went both pistols at once, one ball raising the dust ic 
 ihe middle of the road, while the other took a "slantindicular" course 
 among the bystanders, fortunately without hitting any one. 
 
 It was now time to interpose, and one of the seconds set himself 
 about it. After a little conversation the challenged darkey stepped 
 forward and said to his antagonist: 
 
 " Nigga, is you satisfied ?" 
 
 " I is." 
 
 "So is I, and I's glad to get off so. Next time dey catches dii 
 ^hile out on such a foolish exhibition as dis dey will fotch me. da* 
 dey will do for sartin." 
 
 "Dem's my sentiment* edzautly," n.'tortui! th^ cthej " When you; 
 
 \< }. - ' 
 
.0 BLAOK JOKKS ]''o|{ I!LUK HKVILH. 
 
 onnjortal instrument of def went off I declare I thought I was a gon 
 child ; but I'se so happy now gosh let's shake hands, and go back 
 to our avocation." 
 
 In a short time all hands, principal and seconds, were forgetting 
 the morning's sport in a friendly breakdown, accompanied by the fa- 
 miliar music of the Banjo, Bones, and Tamborine. 
 
 I^wAw**^^ 
 
 High Tariff Language. 
 
 " Ginger, did you eber hear my scientific language upon dat good 
 old melody ob 
 
 Dance, de boatman, dance, 
 
 Dance all night til" broad daylight, 
 
 And go home wic le gals in de morning? 
 
 Bf ingle in de mazes ob de dance, thou knight ob de oar while de re- 
 splendant luminary ob de day has widrawn his light from de earf, till 
 *e bright Aurora gilds de eastern sky wid golden light, and den wid 
 hy characteristic gallantry, accompany the fair and unsophisticated 
 participants ob dy pleas-ires to dar paternal mansions. Ah, honey, 
 dat am high tariff language. 1 ' 
 
 Dey Won't Smell Strong in Heaven. 
 
 Camp meetings are famous in calling together large numbers oi 
 darkeys, as well as others in the South. A late camp meeting on the 
 line of one of our main railroads was in no way deficient in collecting 
 the usual numbers. The platforms at the different railroad stations, 
 
BLACK JOKKS FOR BLUB DEVILS. 
 
 ftota east and west of the carnp, were crowded with those desirous ol 
 swelling the numbers at the " tented grove," among which were the 
 
 usual proportion of darkeys. The train stopped at M . Twc 
 
 young men were sitting together, facing an old woman who had been 
 for some time engaged in singing some doleful tune. As the crowd 
 entered the cars, one of our fi Sends remarked to the other : 
 
 " They turn out strong tins morning." 
 
 " Well," says the old darkey opposite, " if we do smell strong here, 
 when we get to heaven we won't bless the Lord!" 
 
 A Pole-ar Sleeping Place. 
 
 ; XTRAORDINARY A man stopped at de 
 hotel where I work ; after dismounting and 
 tieing his horse, says he : 
 
 " Hallo, landlord, can I get lodgings here to 
 night?" 
 
 De boss says . 
 
 " No, sir, ebery room in ae house is en- 
 gaged." 
 
 "Well, can't you eben gib me a blanket, ana 
 a bunch ob shavings for a pillow, in your bar- 
 room?" 
 
 "No, sir, dar's not a square foot ob room 
 ^xanywhar in de house." 
 
 "Well, den," said de traveller, "I'll thank 
 you to shove a pole out ob your second floox 
 ^vindow, and I'll roost on dat.'' 
 
 An Irrepressible Conflict. 
 
 Ike Country is Safe. 
 
 " Say, Zeke, you cughter be more careful ob yourself; you haren \ 
 got de constitution ob some." 
 
 "Ah, Reuben, don't you belebe it; I've got de constitution ob ft 
 horse." 
 
 "Dam if I don't belebe I've got de constitution of the United 
 States." 
 
 " Well, Zeke, if you am sound as dat you will last a long time. ' 
 
78 
 
 BLACK JOKES FOR BLUE DEVILS. 
 
 SJiarp Set. 
 
 "Joe, you know dat boy ob miue beats de berry debil; lie takes 
 arter his m udder." 
 
 "Well, Ginger, boys am like vinegar de more " mudder " dur is 
 in 'em, de sharper dey gets." 
 
 THE END. 
 
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