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...Moses. Raised on an Arkansas plantation by the freed slaves Ned and his wife Monisha, she is given the name Treemonisha because she likes to play under the tree. Except for Ned and Monisha, the farm hands are deeply superstitious and tremble when the conjurer Zodzetrick, known as the "goofer dus' man, "comes around with his bags o' luck. Ned and Monisha hope that Treemonisha will grow up to lead the people away from the captivity of their ignorance and fear. Accordingly, in exchange for laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby...
...Goofer Feathers...
Moran & Mack weren't so dumb. Goofer feathers were a reality in a small way about the time Columbia was recording their famous record. Food Machinery's development (TIME, Sept. 18) is praiseworthy, not novel. Many markets, like ours, have had none but de-fuzzed peaches for several years...
...author of the article insists on calling "goofus feathers" "goofer feathers," let's at least give credit to the originators of the name for peach fuzz. They were the famous (or should I say-more famous) team of McIntyre & Heath, whom I presume Moran & Mack tried to imitate...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...