However, coloured people had almost all the dwellings of this old section to themselves; and although even they were troubled, there was recompense for them.

Being philosophic about what appeared to them as in the order of nature, they sought neither escape nor redress, and soon learned to bear what the wind brought them.
They even made use of it to enrich those figures of speech with which the native impulses of coloured people decorate their communications: they flavoured metaphor, simile, and invective with it; and thus may be said to have enjoyed it.

But the man who produced it took a hot bath as soon as he reached his home the evening of that first day when his manufacturing began.

Then he put on fresh clothes; but after dinner he seemed to be haunted, and asked his wife if she "noticed anything." She laughed and inquired what he meant.
"Seems to me as if that glue-works smell hadn't quit hanging to me," he explained.

"Don't you notice it ?" "No! What an idea!" He laughed, too, but uneasily; and told her he was sure "the dang glue smell" was somehow sticking to him.