. Negro folk rhymes : wise and otherwise ; with a study . TUNE PLAYED ON A BIG SET OF QUILLS ^ IS . I ? ??.!»?- K fc-i 306 NEGRO FOLK RHYMES. The trangle or triangle mentioned as the otherprimitive instrument uSed by the rabbit and fox inserenading King Deers family was only the U-shaped iron clives which with its pin was used forhitching horses to a plow. The ante-bellum Negrooften suspended this U-shaped clives by a string andbeat it with its pin along with the playing onQuills much after the order that a drum is crude instruments produced music not of un-307 OLrj NEGRO FOLK RHY


. Negro folk rhymes : wise and otherwise ; with a study . TUNE PLAYED ON A BIG SET OF QUILLS ^ IS . I ? ??.!»?- K fc-i 306 NEGRO FOLK RHYMES. The trangle or triangle mentioned as the otherprimitive instrument uSed by the rabbit and fox inserenading King Deers family was only the U-shaped iron clives which with its pin was used forhitching horses to a plow. The ante-bellum Negrooften suspended this U-shaped clives by a string andbeat it with its pin along with the playing onQuills much after the order that a drum is crude instruments produced music not of un-307 OLrj NEGRO FOLK RHYMES pleasant strain and inspired the production of someof the best Negro Rhymes. I would next consider for a little the origin ofthe subject matter found in Negro Rhymes. Whenthe Negro sings Master Is Six Feet One Way orThe Alabama Way there is no question where thesubject matter came from. But when he sings ofanimals, calling them all Brother or Sister, andBought Me a Wife, etc., the origin of the con-ception and subject matter is not so clear. I nowcome to the question: From whence came suchsubject matter? First of all, Mr. Joel Chan


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