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Marto's Men 83 girls wore glass beads around their necks like little savages. When a sudden cloudburst came, for the rainy season was setting in, the negro children gathered in two black, wriggling broods, peering with white eyeballs from the shelter of their ranchos. The white children also were naked, as all peasant children under five or six years old are in Cuba, and brown as little Indians, with abdomens distended <vr ; When a sudden cloudburst came" from vegetable diet. They were less neat than the blacks, or perhaps the soil on their bodies showed more — they were only decently clean for half an hour every other day, when their mothers washed them all over. The families were friendly enough, but instinctively whites and blacks kept apart. When the rain fell in torrents, only a vigorous shovelling kept the floors of the ranchos from flooding, but nobody minded that, and there was
Title | Marching with Gomez |
Creator | Flint, Grover |
Publisher | Lamson, Wolffe and company |
Place of Publication | Boston, New York [etc.] |
Date | 1898 |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000120 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript |
Marto's Men
83
girls wore glass beads around their necks like little
savages.
When a sudden cloudburst came, for the rainy
season was setting in, the negro children gathered
in two black, wriggling broods, peering with white
eyeballs from the shelter of their ranchos. The
white children also were naked, as all peasant children under five or six years old are in Cuba, and
brown as little Indians, with abdomens distended
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