Crisis (1910) (14598195938) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: crisis0506dubo (find matches)
Title: Crisis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, ed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: (New York, Crisis Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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SHADOWS OF THE VEIL.
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THE FOUR SEASONS. 288 THE CRISIS sad gleam unfathomed understanding.With sudden wild abandon she stretchedher arms toward it appealing, beseeching,entreating, and lo! Niggers and dagoes, said the Kingof Yonder Kingdom, glancing carelesslybackward and lighting in his lips a care-fully rolled wisp of fragrant tobacco.She looked back, too, but in half-wondering terror, for it seemed— A Beggar man was creeping across theswamp, shuffling through the dirt andslime. He was little and bald and black,rough clothed, sooted with dirt and bentAvith toil. Yet withal something shesensed about him, and it seemed— The King of Yonder Kingdomlounged more comfortably beside thesilver throne and let curl a tiny trailof light blue smoke. I hate Beggars, he said, especiallybrown and black ones. And he thenpointed at the Beggars retinue andlaughed—an unpleasant laugh welded ofcontempt and amusement. The Princesslooked and shrank on her throne. Hethe Beggar man was—was what? Buthis retinue, that squa