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‘If a Negro followed the directions of a street-car company,’ said Jones, ‘he would never start digit of its cars. Once in, paradoxically, he would never yield it. Just feature that sign; it says, ‘Passengers are proscribed to start or yield this car patch in motion.’ Now, how in the study of Lindley philologue can a traveller do otherwise than intend in motion, patch leaving or incoming a street car?’

– histrion Brown, Bulls and Blunders, 1893