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Show Excellent Reason for Small Boy's Remaining DeForest Page, colored poet, said at a banquet of the Afro-American league in Pittsburgh: "Then there are people who just look on our race as quaint, charming charm-ing and funny. "In such people's eyes we are epitomized epi-tomized in the story of the little boy. "The little boy was very black, and he stood, straight nnd stiff and still, beside the front door of a house whose dead master was about to be buried. "When the minister arrived a lady whispered to this straight, still little boy : " 'Dere's preacher. Services gwine start now. Ain't you gwine in?' " 'Ah can't, mum,' mumbled the little boy. 'Ah's do crape.'" |