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    Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles
    Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles
    Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles
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    Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles

    By G. H. (George Henry) Clements and Ruth McEnery Stuart

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles - G. H. (George Henry) Clements

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      Title: Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles

      Author: Ruth McEnery Stuart

      Illustrator: G. H. Clements

      Release Date: September 25, 2006 [EBook #19363]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DADDY DO-FUNNY'S WISDOM JINGLES ***

      Produced by Janet Blenkinship and The Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      DADDY DO-FUNNY'S

      WISDOM JINGLES

      BY

      RUTH McENERY STUART

      ILLUSTRATED BY G. H. CLEMENTS

      NEW YORK

      THE CENTURY CO.

      1916

      Copyright, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, by

      The Century Co.

      Published, October, 1913

      To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children—a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

      FOREWORD

      In presenting a loyal and venerable ex-slave as an artless exponent of freedom, freedom of conduct as well as of speech, the author of this trivial volume is perhaps not composing an individual so truly as individualizing a composite, if the expression will pass.

      The grizzled brown dispenser of homely admonitions is a figure not unfamiliar to those who have moved in plantation circles in the cotton and sugar country, and touched hands with the kindly dark survivors of the old regime.

      If the man, Daddy Do-funny, was unique as an individual, perhaps in the very fact of an individuality unembarrassed by the limitations of convention, of education and of precedent, he becomes in

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