Produced by Bryan Ness, Dianna Adair, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) _J. Poindexter, Colored_ _By Irvin S. Cobb_ _Fiction_ J. POINDEXTER, COLORED SUNDRY ACCOUNTS FROM PLACE TO PLACE THOSE TIMES AND THESE LOCAL COLOR OLD JUDGE PRIEST BACK HOME THE ESCAPE OF MR. TRIMM _Wit and Humor_ ONE THIRD OFF A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER THE ABANDONED FARMERS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES "OH, WELL, YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE!" FIBBLE D.D. "SPEAKING OF OPERATIONS--" EUROPE REVISED ROUGHING IT DE LUXE COBB'S BILL OF FARE COBB'S ANATOMY _Miscellany_ THE THUNDERS OF SILENCE THE GLORY OF THE COMING PATHS OF GLORY "SPEAKING OF PRUSSIANS--" _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ _J. Poindexter, Colored_ _By_ _Irvin S. Cobb_ _Author of_ "_Old Judge Priest_," "_Speaking of Operations--_," _Etc._ _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ _Copyright, 1922_, _By George H. Doran Company_ [Illustration: Company Logo] _Copyright, 1922_, _By The Curtis Publishing Company_ _Printed in the United States of America_ _J. Poindexter, Colored_ TO MARGARET ILLINGTON BOWES [Illustration: Cover] _CONTENTS_ CHAPTER PAGE ONE: _Down Yonder_ 11 TWO: _North-Bound_ 27 THREE: _Manhattan Isle_ 41 FOUR: _Harlem Heights_ 61 FIVE: _Local Colored_ 88 SIX: _Gold Coast_ 94 SEVEN: _Country Side_ 103 EIGHT: _Dark Secrets_ 114 NINE: _Movie-Land_ 120 TEN: _Black Belt_ 140 ELEVEN: _Afric Shores_ 151 TWELVE: _Business Deals_ 162 THIRTEEN: _Private Life_ 167 FOURTEEN: _Oiled Skids_ 173 FIFTEEN: _Vet to Zym_ 193 SIXTEEN: _Lady-Like!_ 201 SEVENTEEN: _Sable Plots_ 210 EIGHTEEN: _White Hopes_ 224 NINETEEN: _Pistol Plays_ 235 TWENTY: _Piebald Joys_ 247 TWENTY-ONE: _Headed Home_ 252 TWENTY-TWO: _Last Words_ 264 _J. Poindexter, Colored_ CHAPTER I _Down Yonder_ My name is J. Poindexter. But the full name is Jefferson Exodus Poindexter, Colored. But most always in general I has been known as Jeff, for short. The Jefferson part is for a white family which my folks worked for them one time before I was born, and the Exodus is because my mammy craved I should be named after somebody out of the Bible. How I comes to write this is this way: