I had developed a taste for this delicate fowl as desperate as that of the darky for chicken, and my conscience was sufficiently deadened by cold and hunger to break into a roost by night or day to steal anything that offered feathery delights for the palate.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But there was something which claimed his attention above the volubility of Peter, and that was a square envelope, tinted a delicate blue, which the darky carried in one of his wrinkled hands.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Contains funny Railroad Stories, Old Time darky Sayings, Minstrel Jokes, all the late and funny sayings of the day.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
