22/37 He no come now, we fella boy no wait. We go.' And just then Hughie fetched him a clout that knocked him clean down the stairs and off the veranda." "But it was needlessly cruel," Joan objected. "You wouldn't treat a white man that way." "And that's just the point. He was a low black nigger, and he was deliberately insulting, not alone his own white master, but every white master in the Solomons. |