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that at five o'clock he come to see if he's a man or you
are a man.' So I said, Tou go back to Chief Nimley
and tell him if he comes up here at five o'clock, I'll
show him which is the man/

"And at midnight I looked up and there was a little
piccaninny in Boy Scout uniform, but all dressed in
war paint. He came up to the verandah and he said,
'Where's the big man?' So I said, 'Are you a Boy
Scout?' and he said, Tes'. I said, 'Who's your
National Director of Boy Scouts?' He said, 'Colonel
Elwood Davis.' I said, 'Where's Colonel Davis now?'
and he said, 'In Monrovia.' 'No,' I said, 'I'm Colonel
Davis. Now what do you mean by appearing before
your National Director of Boy Scouts in war paint?'
So he got kind of shy and said, 'Chief Nimley told
me to come up here/ I said, 'You go back to Chief
Nimley and say I wouldn't let a Boy Scout deliver
a message like that/ "

That seemed to be the end of the story. I said,
"And did Chief Nimley come?"

"Oh no," Colonel Davis said, "he just made light-
ning. But there were a lot of Buzie men in the camp,
members of the Lightning Society, and they laid out
their medicines and the lightning hit the trees on
the beach and didn't do any harm."

He brought up the subject of the British Consul's
report himself. He said what had gone most to Ms
heart in a very unfair document was the story that
six children had been burnt alive. There was no one
who loved children more than he did. He had
piccaninnies of his own, and I had only to ask his
wife, his second wife, whether every night he didn't
them stories before they went to bed. His