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 'Kase you come to raise the debil here,

And jump Jim Crow.

Veel about, &c.

So I crept through de window

And sat myself a-down,

Broder Clem gub out de text,

Den dey hand dey plate around.

Veel about, &c.

In de ninety-leventh chapter

Of de new Almanack,

Dare it tell you all about

De white man and black.

Veel about, &c.

He say dat Cain was de fuss man,

Julycome Caesar was de toder—

Dey put Adam on de treden mill,

’Kase he kill him broder.

Veel about, &c.

And dea dat Mr. Sampson

Was de man dat build de ark,

Mr. Jonas was de fisherman

Who swallow up de shark.

Veel about, &c.

De rain pour down forty days,

By de sailors' counting,