"Ya! ya! ya! dey calls dis yar instrument a git-tar, but it's only a white banjo, or de banjo ob de white folks. Ya, ya, ya! wid de addition ob a neck an shouldas to institute a thorax to put de lungs in, but lor bress me, de banjo doesn't want any lungs, jist provide it wid a natural amount ob de bowels ob de puss, an de vibration darof will walk clar into de catacombs ob de subterraneous globe, an dessusitate de mummies ob de pyramids. Ya, ya, ya! if ole Che-chops, de great Egypsum nigga president had been buried wid a banjo at his side, he'd waked arter a lebenty-leben hundred year, and danced down to posterity wid de banjo on his knee. Ya, ya! I'se Mosc-art, an I knows de art; de fust, an de last, an de best am "de black art." Dis art has used up Bell-ina, Pagan-ninny, Aunty-ninny, an all de ober ninnies, and has set all de world, an all de niggas singing an sighen to de vibration ob de banjo string, an when my great "Book of nigger melleriferousness" is printed, by Fisher & Broder, de whole race of composers will collapse, an bow to de string ob all strings."

  "I say, Mr. Pompey Pumpkin, please for to do me the fatisaction to lickquidate dis yar little William."

  "Sar, wid de most horizontal pleasure; what am de natur ob de per contra?"

  "Sa! It comsorts to comprise a catalogical inventory ob sundry, ob second and third handed gentlemen's habiliments, includin de entire and dissolute costume dat you now appear in, and which you hab done our establishment in Brattle street, de honor to hire for de daily promenade hours on Washington Street."

  "Sura, very possentively it am quite an elongated distance od account, but apprepos, since you submit dat my distinque and distensive patronage is an hona, why you must just please take de hona for de pay, for possentively, my exchequer am not supplied wid de solentary red tenth ob a dime."

  "Sar, your style ob diction am a little too niggerature for my present supply ob suskeptibity, please to be more cal-low-querous."

  "Well den, in vulgar phraseology, I hasen't got de fust red cent,—so go along, niggar."