Theatrical and Circus Life or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-Room and Sawdust Arena
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE MINSTREL BOYS.
Emmet, Brower, Whitlock and Pelham among the Earliest--Pot-Pie Herbert--Daddy Rice and Jim Crow--Zip Coon--Coal Black Rose --My Long Tail Blue--Early Days of George Christy--Minstrel Men Generally Improvident--Minstrel Men as Mashers--Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels--The Boys at Rehearsal 367-381