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Sun, 19.01.2025

QUOITS  by Ellie Lee Newsome.

In wintertime, I have such funWhen I play quoits with father.I beat him almost every game.He never seems to bother. He looks at mother and just smiles.All this seems strange to me,For when he plays with grown-up folks,He beats them easily. *Quoits is a ring toss game. Category, Rituals, Reference:  Effie Newsome

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Thu, 24.09.2009

MORNING LIGHT (the Dew-Drier) by Effie Lee Newsome.

In Africa little black boys, “human brooms,” are sent before the explorers into jungle grasses that tower many feet to tread down a path and meet sometimes the lurking leopard or hyena.

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Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too. Once I redemption neither sought... ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA by Phyllis Wheatley.
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