Dinkey

(You remember de little old train dey used to call de 'Dinkey' don't you?)

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

As for the Dinkey-bird even a seven-year-old can hardly _hear_ the rhyme even if intellectually he could follow the adult vocabulary and the complicated sentence with its long postponed subject.

Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds Lucy Sprague Mitchell 1922

In Eugene Field's exquisite little poem of "The Dinkey Bird," we find the objects familiar to the child in unusual places, so that some imagination is needed to realize that "big red sugar-plums are clinging to the cliffs beside the sea"; but the introduction of the fantastic bird and the soothing sound of amfalula tree are new and delightful sensations, quite out of the child's personal experience.

The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

Dinkey, I had forgotten to state, was a white horse, and belonged to

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

When by a strategic short cut across the angle of a trail Buckshot succeeded in stealing a march on Dinkey, while she was nipping a mouthful, his triumph was beautiful to see.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

Dinkey and Jenny took the opportunity to push ahead.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

Two more miracles saved Dinkey at two more places.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

Without near the originality of Dinkey, she was yet a very good and sure pack-horse.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

We turned our pack-horses out for them all, dashing back and forth along the line, coercing the diabolical Dinkey.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909

He carried a heavy pack, was as sure-footed as Bullet, as sagacious on the trail as Dinkey, and he always attended strictly to his own business.

The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909