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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XII: the Black regiment (search)
the blessed veteran gets down his primer, dog-eared now as far as four syllables and away they go to the moss house where Mrs. D. holds sway over drummers and divines.. Pete says Uncle York told them that he once walked from a certain point to Darien, twenty miles discoursing all the way to himself and that he had finally to stop outside of Darien to end de discourse —In this and many other points he constantly reminds me of Socrates, only that Socrates, as it would appear, never did end. . .Darien to end de discourse —In this and many other points he constantly reminds me of Socrates, only that Socrates, as it would appear, never did end. . . . Pete, the Major's boy-servant, who had picked up Gallop dances from native Africans, leads the boys in shouts and decorates the school tent very prettily on his own plan. He is rather hard to wake in the morning and when the Major's boot is thrown at him with or without the owner's foot, he pleads apologetically that it is bad luck to wake de fus time you are called. Sometimes ghosts do call um, he adds in explanation, which implies the necessity of a wholesome caution. Colonel Higgi