Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376
e wouldchase them; but if any person threw a bucket of water between the witch and the Boomeo Boy, itbroke the spell, ami the Boomeo Boy would haveto give up the chase. Some people have thought that, in these plays,those poor slaves were keeping up the old customswhich they had in Africa, and that… … THE BOOMEO BOY ON HIS women, and children away in the slave-ships, andthat the fire and the water stand for the burningvillages and the ocean. But I only remember, asa little boy, standing by the window of the planta-tion-house in Cashingar, and seeing the crowd ofslaves go by, their old king at…
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