Al G. Field, who spent his life touring America with circuses and his own minstrel company, opens with the poem that gives the book its name and then spins a long, rambling, joke-filled story of show people, small towns and life on the road, drawing on the characters and stunts he knew from decades in the business.
A period piece of American popular entertainment; its humour belongs to the minstrel stage and carries that stage’s racial attitudes. Download the free EPUB.