...said) children were taught nothing but dancing, and singing such songs as: — Ten little niggers went out to dine, One choked his little self and then there were nine. She did not see why what they learned at dames' schools did not do them as much good as this." The...

...ground that, there, children were only taught how to dance and to sing — Ten little niggera went out to dine, One choked his little self, and then there were nine. % The owner of a stolen Bible might reasonably incline to forgive a thief actuated by a godly propensity...

...half-crowns out of a pound, and we have heard, since the cradle, the song : Ten little nigger boys Going out to dine One choked his little self And then there were nine. From an early age we have been entirely convinced of the inevitableness of the last line in view of...

...What nursery rhyme? VERA. (She points at the figures and rhyme— reading:) "Ten little soldier boys going out to dine. One choked his little self and then there were nine—" (ROGERS enters up Right and crosses Left. VERA continues reading nursery rhyme. BLORE crosses up to...

...making non-western children disappear, usually in not such pleasant ways. Ten little nigger boys went out to dine; one choked his little self, and then there were nine.' This violent vanishing act is reminiscent of a notion common in nineteenth-century racial thinking,...

..."both prehistorical and modern," and a "ten little nigger boys" series. 31 "Ten little nigger boys went out to dine; one choked his little self and then there were nine." Jan Pieterse has suggested that this imaged, counting rhyme was "a violent vanishing act" by which...

...guests said was read aloud at least once during the dinner party, begins: "Ten little nigger boys went out to dine /One choked his little self and then there were nine ..." — Duluth News-Tribune, November 8, 1996 Upset? Or a Setup? We've already told you the woman...

...from which it sprang. Here, for example, is an older, English version: Ten little nigger boys went out to dine; One choked his little self, and then there were nine. Nine little nigger boys sat up very late; One overslept himself, and then there were eight. Eight little nigger...

...face. As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel. Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. She thought to herself: "It's horrible — just like us this evening. . . ." Why had Anthony Marston...

...that blacks left to their own devices will eventually destroy themselves. Ten little nigger boys went out to dine; One choked his little self, and then there were nine. Nine little nigger boys sat up very late; One overslept himself, and then there were eight. Eight little nigger...