More 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 ... Second Book, Like the First, Needs No Title - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1919. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Messing with Matrimony TICK PROMISES Tick Hush looked like a negro who would work like a horse, and who would do as he was cold. Colonel Tom Gait skill leaned back in his swivel chair for a comprehensive survey of this new applicant for a job. He saw a brown-skinned man, with a big round head, a flat nose, heavy lips that were easy-smiling, and eyes which were as wide-open, as simple and innocent as the black, glass eyes of a china doll. He noticed that the man stood perfectly straight, without nervousness, and that his big hands were hard and square--the hands of a willing worker. "I don't know nothin' but how to wuck de Ian', Marse Tom," Tick told him. "Farmin' is my trade. So when I heerd tell dat you done bought dat farm whar de ole pest-house was located at, I figgered dat dis wus a chance to git me a good job wid a good boss." The speech won Gaitskill's favor. Negroes are afraid of hospitals, quarantine stations, and graveyards. He had had difficulty in securing a negro tenant for this newly acquired farm because the pesthouse occupied a portion of the plantation. "Aren't you afraid of that farm, Tick?" Gaitskill smiled. "Naw, suh," Tick chuckled. "De cullud folks orate 'bout all dem bad ketchin' diseases in de pesthouse, but I ain't gwine pester aroun' in dat neighborhood none." Gaitskill determined to test the negro's sincerity once for all. "Think of the people who have died out there, Tick," he said. "When I was a boy there was an epidemic of cholera, and the people died in that old stone house like flies. After that there was yellow fever, and nobody who was taken into that house for quarantine ever came out alive. There have been epidemics of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and smallpox. People are buried all around that quarantine station --you ...

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