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did not get a full choir. At their praise meetings they go through with all sorts of motions in connection with their songs, but they won't give way to their wildest gesticulations or engage in their sacred dances before white people, for fear of being laughed at. They didn't get out of their seats while I was there, but whenever the sperrit of the song moved them very much, would pat their feet and flap their arms and go through with a number of motions that reminded me of the game of Old Dame Wiggins that we used to play when we were children. They call these native airs little speritual songs, in contradistinction to the hymns that the preachers read to them in church, out of a book, and seem to enjoy them a great deal more. One of them has a quick, lively melody, which they sing to a string of words like these: Mary an' Marthy, feed my lambs, Feed my lambs, feed my lambs; Mary an' Marthy, feed my lambs, Settin‘ on de golden altar. I weep, I moan; what mek I moan so slow?