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Identifier: bookofroyalblue16balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ods;De squirrels flittin froo de trees .\-figgerin to seeIf he can tell about how late Dem walnuts gwineter be. Ole yaller-hammer drummin lak He gwineter raise de dead;(I clar to goodness pear to me Hell sho jar off his head !)Hes playin ob a quickstep whiles De song birds jine an raiseA drowsy hymn to celebrate Dem lazy August days. Wheneber .\ugust comes aroun It always pear to meSome sleepy angel done come down To sorter overseeAn keep de summer goin right— Leasways, I seem to hearDe swish ob glory wings erbout Dis season ob de year. It makes me sleepy, too I I desKaint stop raah eyelids fallin When froo de lazy, hazy airI hear de wiF birds callin; De fish-pole layin on de bank,De drowsy water swishin— But Lawdy ! deys one nigger desToo lazy to go fishin! Oh, .\ugust musics mighty sweet; I heah de wahm wind blow,A-humniin drowsy songs, an den, De fus thing that I know,Deys one ole nigger fur away, Los in de wil wood deep,Des lays his head in Natures lap An gently goes to sleep!
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UKOLl Of STATIAKV IRdM TEXTILES HllLDING. WORLDS KAIK. ST. LOUIS. THE TALE OF THE ACCOMMODATING MAN. BY EVERARD JACK APPLETON. THERE are times, remarked Van Major,J. drawing hia chair closer to thewindow and lighting his cigar, when1 doubt the advisability of being accommo-dating. No, 1 do not refer to giving yourseat to a woman in a street car and havingher look daggers at you because the sjjaceyou occupied was not large enough toaccommodate both her bundles and herself;nor to the man who borrows a dollar fromyou and then refuses to speak to you for amonth for fear youll ask him for it. It isthe bigger acts of accommodation that donot pay. Did I ever tell you the story ofthe Most Accommodating Man I EverKnew? Well, its raining, and you cantget away—waiter, two more Martinis. He was a typical American, in the firstplace; a hustling, happy-go-lucky chap whohad made a lot of money without knowingexactly how it happened, and he did notworry any at night about dying with a bigbalance to

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