It is really singular to me that such
a day should be devoted by a certain class of our population to
broils and fisticuffs."
This final moral sentiment, which was altogether an impromptu
utterance, and which was delivered with the air of one who
addresses a vast but invisible audience of young ladies in white
dresses and blue sashes, seemed to add to the embarrassment of
Uncle Remus, and at the same time to make an explanation
necessary.
"Dey ain't none er you young w'ite men never had no 'casion fer
ter strike up wid one er deze Mobile niggers?" asked Uncle Remus.
"'Kaze ef you iz, den you knows wharbouts de devilment come in.
Show me a Mobile nigger," continued the old man, an I'll show
you a nigger dat's marked for de chain-gang. Hit may be de fote
er de fif' er July, er hit may be de twelf' er Jinawerry, but
w'en a Mobile nigger gits in my naberhood right den an' dar
trubble sails in an' 'gages bode fer de season. I speck I'm ez
fon' er deze Nunited States ez de nex' man w'at knows dat de Buro
is busted up; but long ez Remus kin stan' on his hin' legs no
Mobile nigger can't flip inter dis town longer no Wes' P'int
'schushun an' boss 'roun' 'mong de cullud fokes. Dat's me, up an'
down, an' I boun' dere's a nigger some'rs on de road dis blessid
day dat's got dis put away in his 'membunce.
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