I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
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