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Title: Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles

Author: Ruth McEnery Stuart

Illustrator: G. H. Clements

Release Date: September 25, 2006 [EBook #19363]

Language: English

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DADDY DO-FUNNY'S
WISDOM JINGLES

BY
RUTH McENERY STUART

ILLUSTRATED BY G. H. CLEMENTS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

Copyright, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, by
The Century Co.

_Published, October, 1913_

To the Memory of those faithful brown
slave-men of the plantations throughout the
South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during
the war while their masters were away fighting
in a cause opposed to their emancipation,
brought their blankets and slept outside their
mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch
over otherwise unprotected women and children--a
faithful guardianship of which the
annals of those troublous times record no
instance of betrayal.

FOREWORD

In presenting a loyal and venerable ex-slave as an artless exponent of
freedom, freedom of conduct as well as of speech, the author of this
trivial volume is perhaps not composing an individual so truly as
individualizing a composite, if the expression will pass.

The grizzled brown dispenser of homely admonitions is a figure not
unfamiliar to those who have "moved in plantation circles" in the cotton
and sugar country, and touched hands with the kindly dark survivors of
the old regime.

If the man, Daddy Do-funny, was unique as an individual, perhaps in the
very fact of an individuality unembarrassed by the limitations of
convention, of education and of precedent, he becomes in a sense typical
of his people and of his time.

Of course, a man is not called Do-funny for nothing, not even playfully
and in the free vernacular of