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Excerpt from Antation Bitters: A Colored Fantasy in Two Acts, for Male Characters Only (as Written for the Belmont Tennis Club) Aunt dinah. Chintz dress of very showy pattern, fan-waist gathered to a point, small rufed shoulder-cape, red turban, large calico apron. The last removed at party. Sambo. (a boy of thirteen or fourteen years.) Ragged calico shirt, patched trousers, reaching to ankles, held up by one home made suspender, Old light socks, very heavy rough shoes, tied with white string, and ragged straw hat. Black stockings should be? Worn under the socks, as the leg is likely to show. Kangaroo costume. Bett. (represented by a boy a year or so younger than Sam.) Calico dress, rather short, white pantalets, loose white stockings, shoes like Sambo's, and white sun-bonnet. Bett's wig should be braided in little tails, with white cord, so that the tails will stand up all over her head. Kangaroo costume. Mose. (as small a boy as can play the part.) Very short linen trousers and calico pinafore (the latter should be daubed on the front with red, yellow, sepia, etc.) black stockings will represent bare legs, and he may wear Old light slippers or moccasins. A very effective dress can be made of a burlap sack or bag; then only one garment need be used. Kangaroo costume. Lucy. First dress, ordinary light calico dress, white apron, and head-handkerchief. Second dress, pink silk party-dress, with train. Tilly. First dress similar to Lucy's. Second, yellow satin party-dress, with train. Jasper vincent. Pronounced checked suit, black and white, cane, and eyeglass. Pompey jones. Old-fashioned brown linen coat with skirts, dark trousers, very short and tight, high collar, black stock, tall hat', large steel-bowed spectacles. Everything about him neat, but much worn. Aunt chloe. Very full calico dress, drawn in about the waist, a light shawl, red and yellow turban, with a large sun-bonnet worn over the turban. About the Publisher Forgotten Boo