FLORIDA.


After two or three days the gangs would begin to return


to work,
broke-i
 Two
sir! i7
bananas,
sonville,


silent f
n fact, "
or there
tey put
etc., an
bought


or a day or
'played out
e of them
on airs, jol
d went on
watches, ct


two, dispirited, disgusted, dead-
9
wouldn't return to work-no,
ked, smoked cigars, ate melons,
a trip down the river to Jack-
ines, etc. They were the win-


ning gamblers.
 The pay-rolls exhibited a lamentable condition of igno-
rance among them, less than ten per cent. signing their
names. About thirty or forty whites of the poorer class of
natives were employed on the gangs, and the lack of edu-


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cation was even greater among this class, for less than four
per cent. could sign their names. In reply to the request
to "sign your name," the old darkeys always politely
replied, 'I can't write, sir" ; but the whites would, in a