If there are black sheep in our flock, and I may say I fear — indeed, I know there are ; even thev '' " We's all black, ole mistis ! '^ shouted a denselv black woman, who doubtless thought some allusion was made to herself, and who had been enviously admiring some mulatto girls on the bench in front of herself. " Dese yaller gals, wid all dar ribbins an' feathers, is es black sheep es anybody ! '' " Silence ! '' commanded the old lady, angrily. " I say if there are unworthy members here, they a...re free too ; "SINGING SCHOOLS." 445 no less free than you all are, and I hope they will not be molested in the church, so long as they deport themselves in a seemly manner. We will begin, as usual, with the first chant." Then, for more than an hour, there was that promiscuous chanting, which gave these schools, among the negroes, the name of " singing schools." Everything was chanted from the emancipation proclamation to a spelling lesson ; or a geography lesson, locating Boston in the centre of the universe, and crediting it Avith being a perennial fount from which flows only blessings for all the human family.
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