E. K. Means

E. K. Means - Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That His Book Needs No Title

The stories in this volume were written simply because of my interest in the stories themselves and because of a whimsical fondness for the people of that Race to whom God has given two supreme gifts,Music and Laughter. The Hen-Scratch saloon derived its name from the fact that many of its colored habitus played craps on the ground under the chinaberry trees until the soil was marked by their scratching finger-nails like a chicken-yard. The name Tickfall is fictitious, but the locality will be easily recognized by the true names of the negro settlements, Dirty-Six, Hells-Half-Acre, Shiny, Tinrow,lying in the sand around that rich and aristocratic little town like pigs around their dam and drawing their sustenance therefrom. Skeeter Buttss real name is Perique. Perique is also the name of Louisianas famous homegrown tobacco, and as Skeeter is too diminutive to be named after a whole cigar, his white friends vi have always called him Butts. Vinegar Atts is a well-known colored preacher of north Louisiana, whose swing-tail prancin-albert coat has been seen in many pulpits, and whose stove-pipe, preachin hat has been the target of many a stone thrown from a mischievous white boys hand. Hitch Diamond is known at every landing place on the Mississippi River as Big Sandy. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 59121
Author: Means, E. K. (Eldred Kurtz)
Release Date: Mar 24, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor), 1861-1933