Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Negroes
We’ve scrubb’d the negroes till we’ve nearly kill’d ’em,
And finding that we cannot wash them white,
We mean to gild ’em.
Thos. Hood.—A Black Job, last Verse.
Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
We’ve scrubb’d the negroes till we’ve nearly kill’d ’em,
And finding that we cannot wash them white,
We mean to gild ’em.
Thos. Hood.—A Black Job, last Verse.