_J. Poindexter, Colored_
_By Irvin S. Cobb_
_Fiction_
J. POINDEXTER, COLORED SUNDRY ACCOUNTS FROM PLACE TO PLACE THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM
_Wit and Humor_
ONE THIRD OFF A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER THE ABANDONED FARMERS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES "OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!" FIBBLE D.D. "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS--" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY
_Miscellany_
THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE THE GLORY OF THE COMING PATHS OF GLORY "SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS--"
_New York_
_George H. Doran Company_
_J. Poindexter, Colored_
_By_
_Irvin S. Cobb_
_Author of_
"_Old Judge Priest_,"
"_Speaking of Operations--_," _Etc._
_New York_
_George H. Doran Company_
_Copyright, 1922_,
_By George H. Doran Company_
[Illustration: Company Logo]
_Copyright, 1922_,
_By The Curtis Publishing Company_
_Printed in the United States of America_
_J. Poindexter, Colored_
TO MARGARET ILLINGTON BOWES
[Illustration: Cover]
_CONTENTS_
CHAPTER PAGE
ONE: _Down Yonder_ 11
TWO: _North-Bound_ 27
THREE: _Manhattan Isle_ 41
FOUR: _Harlem Heights_ 61
FIVE: _Local Colored_ 88
SIX: _Gold Coast_ 94
SEVEN: _Country Side_ 103
EIGHT: _Dark Secrets_ 114
NINE: _Movie-Land_ 120
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. Cobb
- 2: But the full name is Jefferson Exodus Poindexter
- 3: He's always been a great hand for upholding the law
- 4: Or when the old judge needs me
- 5: Outside of some few white folks
- 6: Dallas he fetches me into the Pullman car where he's riding
- 7: Which his given name is Roscoe
- 8: He says Not under no circumstances whutsomever
- 9: But fust you wants to be shore he's sleepin' sound
- 10: Only it's mighty flat looking for a levee
- 11: Dallas he says to me it's a quiet hotel up town
- 12: I'm paying twenty seven dollars and a half
- 13: I didn't know any of the Sublettes
- 14: Raynor with his friends which there is four of them
- 15: Raynor he don't detain my attention much
- 16: But he ain't craving nothing solid to eat
- 17: Both on foot and in automobiles
- 18: Dallas Pulliam he is accustom' to the best whar'ever he go
- 19: Suh tha's whut I been suspicionin' my own se'f
- 20: But I tells him where Paducah is located at
- 21: I knows so dad blame many people round yere
- 22: An' you bein' frum my home town
- 23: You teks the pin an' collects the reward
- 24: I studies and studies and then
- 25: Raynor and that there colored imposer
- 26: Dallas that he's progressed very rapid
- 27: Dallas has not only bought one car
- 28: You don't notice it so much in Paducah
- 29: But its principalest functions
- 30: Which is dancing and cards and drinks
- 31: I don't know yet if it ever will be ripe
- 32: All what they gleans about him his real inside emotions
- 33: Raynor he calls himself a broker
- 34: He appears to be in sole charge
- 35: But I ain't sorry for the director
- 36: But I'm' skeered the directin' gen'elman mout object
- 37: Everybody does so except the director
- 38: I kin only tell you how one cullid pusson feels
- 39: And I'll say it positively was lonesome
- 40: The Black Prophet of Abyssinia
- 41: That is the account as he lays it down
- 42: The fust batch goes ez soon ez the fust boat is ready
- 43: Whar this yere Angler Saxony is
- 44: You tek it frum me it's true of Affika
- 45: Dallas Pulliam fur a small loan
- 46: Bellows he ain't got no storage room for egg nogs
- 47: Dallas 'specially close that New Year's Eve
- 48: Fur interruptin' yore ponderin's
- 49: They've been selling oil stocks
- 50: Raynor kept handing over to him
- 51: I wonder whut 'at other direction kin be
- 52: You's no doubt of'en seen ole Pappy Exall
- 53: Dallas what was passing through my mind
- 54: I seems to see a bright streak
- 55: Jes' frum answerin' my own questions
- 56: The chillen w'ich enshores 'at Mr
- 57: Only I do trus' an' pray at you'll purtec' me frum Mr
- 58: It's a mighty nice kind of romancing
- 59: On 'count of the Pulliam pride an' all
- 60: They don't seem to have chillen by driblets
- 61: Dallas is jest ez rationable ez whut you an' me is
- 62: Dallas and is watching his face whilst he reads it
- 63: Nummine the gratitudes part yit aw'ile
- 64: Raynor on the line right speedy
- 65: Suh 'at's partially whut I wuz figgerin' on
- 66: And he takes the hint and tiptoes along behind me
- 67: Frum the symptoms I should a knowed whut wuz brewin'
- 68: Pulliam we can square this thing
- 69: Dallas calls to me to come to him and bring Koga with me
- 70: You must a been lis'senin' 'en
- 71: It's what my late partner did that counts
- 72: In yore letter tell the Jedge 'at w'en he gits back
- 73: I want to write out some telegrams first
- 74: That'll fetch 'em ef anything will
- 75: Hungry city possible typo for Hungary City2