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...could use and was forced to turn them away. About dark an old grey-haired Negro, perhaps 65 years old, shuffled up. "Boss, I wants a job." "Sorry. Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop...
That was the surprise. The rest of the party consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...
...name was Supi-yaw-lat-jes...
...never stays in one place mo' 'n fo' weeks," boasts Black Ulysses. "Leastwise, never mo' 'n five. . . . Sometimes I knows where I wants to go, an' sometimes I jes' git on to go anywhere, jes' anywhere at all, jes' anywhere but where I is." Little matter where, for this colored travelin' man is of versatile profession. Not yet 35, he has covered 40 states, as cotton picker in Alabama, meat packer in Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta...
Free to bust up a prayer meetin' or a quiltin' jamboree: lights out, shots in the dark, screams, "Lawd, my daddy hurt?"-and all "jes' for the hell...