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In A Mulberry Tree

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Title:     In A Mulberry Tree
Author: Thomas W. Talley [More Titles by Talley]

Jes looky, looky yonder; w'at I see!
Two liddle Niggers in a Mulberry tree.
One cain't read, an' de t'other cain't write.
But dey bofe can smoke deir daddy's pipe.

"One ma two! One ma two!"
Dat Mulberry Witch, he [37]titterer too.
"Big bait o' Mulberries make 'em bofe sick.
Dem liddle Niggers gwineter roll an' kick!"


FOOTNOTE
[37] Titterer means laugh.






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Thomas W. Talley's poem: In A Mulberry Tree

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