Front:
Watching the Circus go by.
The Coon Creek Rehearsal.
C1895 0. P. Havens
OWN IN DIXIE
Waiting for the Parade
in Dixie Land.
RASTUS ANE NED
Back:
THE HAPPY SOUTH,
WHERE COTTON IS KING, IN DIXIE LAND
This folder contains a set of typical southern darky
scenes, reproduced from actual photographs, showing
the care-free and happy life of the negro down in Dixie.
In publishing this folder it is done with the idea
happy life of the colored race South of the Mason
Dixon Line, that has been made famous in Song and
Story
oo
This can only be appreciated by a visit to the
Southland, and see the negro as he toils in the cotton
and cane, happy and contented.
Superstition composes a great part of their life.
It is the keynote of their songs, stories and folklore.
The negro dialect laconic rambling full of repetitions,
and bounding in curious elusions which give an
unexpected quaintness to the simplest statements.
Stephen C. Foster has aptly express sentiments
of the average darky in his beautiful song "The Old
Folks at Home.”
Way down upon the Swanee River, All round de little farm I wandered
Far, far away
When I was young.
Dere's wha' my heart is turning eber, Den many happy days I squandered.
Dere's wha* de old folks stay,
Many de songs I sung.
All up and down de whole creation When I was playing wid my brudder,
Sadly I roam.
Happy was I;
Still longing for de old plantation, Oh, take me to me kind old mudder.
And for de old folks at home.
Dere let me live and die.
One little hut a mong de bushes,
One dat I love,
Still sadly to my mem'ry rushes,
No matter where I rove.
When will I see de bees a humming
All round de comb?
When will I hear de banjo tumming,
Down in my good old home?
After a northern tourist's visit to the Sunny South
is more able to anoreciate the words in above
