Trial and Triumph

ing Mrs. Lasette's sitting room, throwing down her books on t

my dear child? You seem

uss with that

the saloon-kee

es

id it

n our last names. You know that I, comes next to J; but there wasn't a girl in the room w

and they were not r

ever will

y, Annette, but go

gan to wriggle and squirm and I asked her if anything was biti

you are; why did you not

t there since the teacher put her on th

knows how to scratc

s a real sc

ou, my dear; a

id she wasn't used to eating with niggers. Then I asked her if her mother didn't eat with the pigs in the old country, and she s

out of this fuss, and then it is so wrong and unlady-like for

t fourteen

all this time? Did she

likes colored people, because last week when Joe Smith was cutting up

but I don't suppose she though

said if she had done a child of hers so, she would have gone there and sauced her hea

andmother was right;

; that he would as lieve sit by me as any

ttle

girls because th

all about M

hold of my arm and said he had heard that I had called his daughter, Miss Mary Joseph, a poor white mick

t ne

to show it. Oh, but I do hate these Irish. I don't like them for anything. Grandmother says that an Irishma

sing together; I don't think t

she had no business

have liked it [any] better i

hing of the kind, neither negro nor n

te, are you

f I am, she sha

w white your face is,' do you suppose she would

f cour

and you said to her, how red and rosy you l

uppose tha

'Annette, how black your face is

eel like sl

u think becaus

Miss, she is so

oseph; If she is rude and coarse, that is no

e too sweet for anything

at is not to the point. Will

. I could listen

king I should think you had a lot of Irish blood

d if I had I wou

Do you think because Miss Joseph is whi

f cour

she can see and hear a l

kes you ask such

on't you think if you and she had got to fighting t

y to get the ruler out of my hand

s smarter than you are and

u are s

e in the world did

t in the street, and the girls in Tennis Cou

e it in private and you will not be apt to use it in public. However humb

harm is th

mselves, but they may not have the best associations, and it is safer not to use them. But let us return to Miss Joseph. You do not think that she can see or hear any better than you

Lord, of

ho mad

de me,

hat you did not

id Annette with an accen

ver make an

y,

get angry? You say it would not make Miss Josep

ow I don't like it

ngry to be called black. Suppose I were to burn my

re pl

ur hand, what

p to keep from getting cold into it and

d of the Ruler of the universe, that this is his world and that you have as much right in it as she has. I think it was Gilbert Haven, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a man for whose tombstone I do not think America has any marble too white or any laurel too green, who saw on his travels a statue of Cleopatra, which suggested to him this thought, 'I am black, but comely, the sun has looked down upon me, but I will make you who despise me feel that I am your superior,' and, Annette, I want you to be so noble, true and pure that if everybody should hate you, t