Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 43: what you’re looking at

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THE BARBECUE. $7 pranches, with tremendous efforts, adding fuel to the flames, jn the center of which begar to deepen and vivify the hot logs which made the reliable foundation of the fire, before which sticks were set up, from which were suspended two huge “ porkers,” to be roasted’ whole, after the fashion of a Musical as the sweetest strains of the violin, was the con- tinual splatter and sizzle of fat which began to drop from these. It filled all senses with rich anticipations. Under its inspiriting influence, the young folks began to dance with ing; while there was a much larger crowd and a fuller band of music. Uncle Zip’s fiddle had been reinforced by two banjos and a tambourine, to say nothing of a tin-pan and a ketile-drum. And thé music thus produced was of no mean character. Rich, lively, melodious, full of golden rhythm and delicious sensibility, it moved the African blood to responsive beats; it was simple and natural as their own feelings, and as gay: while it had about it an originality distinct as that of the race from which it emanated. All the splendor of their native clime is in the golden melodies of the negroes. Although the roasted porkers were the principal item in the bill of fare, there were accessories. In a large pot, which sweng over a small fire of its own, some score of chickens fowls. Let not the inquiring reader trouble his mind as to the means by which these delicacies were obtained; they may have been raised by some provident resident in the or they may have been taken surreptitiously ‘rom the hen-houses of masters—it matters not. There was also another rare dish, upon which was concen fated all the care and skill of the best cook in the party. comichooks.com - She