. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). R. H. for me. jfealousyand rage of largered-headed Gorilla. How shall I escape ? Ay, how indeed ? Do you wish to know ? Is your curiosityexcited ? Well, I do know how I escaped. I could tell themost extraordinary adventures that happened to me. I couldshow you resemblances to peojDle at home, that would makethem blue with rage and you crack your sides with laughter,* * * # * ^^,-,(-1
. Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch). R. H. for me. jfealousyand rage of largered-headed Gorilla. How shall I escape ? Ay, how indeed ? Do you wish to know ? Is your curiosityexcited ? Well, I do know how I escaped. I could tell themost extraordinary adventures that happened to me. I couldshow you resemblances to peojDle at home, that would makethem blue with rage and you crack your sides with laughter,* * * # * ^^,-,(-1 ^vhat is the reason I cannot write thispaper, having all the facts before me ? The reason is, thatwalking down St. James Street yesterday, I met a friend whosays to me, Roundabout my boy, have you seen your picture ?Here it is ! And he pulls out a portrait, executed in photog-raphy, of your humble servant, as an immense and most un-pleasant-featured baboon, with long hairy hands, and called bythe waggish artist A Literary Gorilla. O horror ! And nowyou see why I cant play off this joke myself, and moralize onthe fable, as it has been narrated already de me. 9 130 ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. A MISSISSIPPI ^^^^^^^s*-^ This group of dusky children of the captivity is copied outof a little sketch-book which I carried in many a roundaboutjourney, and will point a moral as well as any other sketch inthe volume. Yonder drawing was made in a country wherethere was such hospitality, friendship, kindness shown to thehumble designer, that his eyes do not care to look out for faults,or his pen to note them. How they sang ; how they laughedand grinned ; how they scraped, bowed, and complimented youand each other, those negroes of the cities of the Southern the then United States ! My business kept me in the towns ;I was but in one negro-plantation village, and there were onlywomen and little children, the men being out a-field. But therewas plenty of cheerfulness in the huts, under
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