ine comes into shape, I am beginning to decipher the individual parts. At first, of course, they all looked just alike; the variety comes afterwards, and they are just as distinguishable

the midshipman and his men returned to the gun-boats and informed Lieut. Loomis of the answer he had received.

But slavery brought about one result, and that the most difficult in the development of a race from savagery, and especially a tropical race, a race that has always been idle in the luxuriance of a nature that supplied its physical needs with little labor.

From the depths of chattel slavery in Maryland, our author escaped into the caste-slavery of the north, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Here he found oppressi

out in de sun, fas’ ‘sleep, en den Brer Fox en Brer Rabbit, dey had a ‘spute ’bout how dey gwine ter fix de Hoss so he can’t git loose. One say one way en de yuther say n’er way,

ny one who doubts that there is a peculiar heel-tickling,
smile-provoking, joy-awakening, response-compelling charm in Ragtime needs only to hear a skilful perform

Den dey ‘buse him thoo an’ thoo;
Well, hit ‘s all de same.

Somep’n’s wrong erbout my lung,
An’ I ‘s glad hit ‘s so.
Doctah says ‘at I ‘ll die young,
Well, I wants to go!