| Page |
| Foreword | [7] |
| Gullah Stories | |
| Noblesse Oblige | [19] |
| My Maussuh | [24] |
| An Antemortem Demise | [29] |
| The Lion of Lewisburg | [35] |
| The Lion Killer | [45] |
| Old Barney | [53] |
| Billybedam | [58] |
| A Short Cut to Justice | [64] |
| Sam Dickerson | [72] |
| Simon the “Squerril” Hunter | [82] |
| The “Cunjuh” That Came Back | [87] |
| The Raccoon Hunter | [96] |
| The Turkey Hunter | [107] |
| The ’Gator Hunter | [116] |
| The “Wiles That in the Women Are” | [128] |
| A Ricefield Idyll | [134] |
| The Dower House | [142] |
| At the Cross Roads Store | [150] |
| Mingo the Drill Master | [158] |
| Old Harrison | [166] |
| A Marriage of Convenience | [174] |
| The Plat-Eye | [183] |
| Old Pickett | [190] |
| The Lost Buck | [202] |
| Jim Moultrie’s Divorce | [212] |
| Buh Alligettuh en’ Buh Deer | [216] |
| Buh Hawss en’ Buh Mule (a Fable) | [219] |
| Liss “Bin Eensult” | [221] |
| The Retort Courteous | [223] |
| The Cat Was Crazy | [225] |
| A Congaree Water-Color | [230] |
| Waiting Till the Bridegrooms Come | [233] |
| A Gullah’s Tale of Woe | [238] |
| The Doctor Didn’t “Exceed” | [242] |
| The Lady Couldn’t “Specify” | [246] |
| A Question of Privilege | [249] |
| Conductor Smith’s Dilemma | [252] |
| One Was Taken—the Other Left | [256] |
| Egg-zactly | [259] |
| An Interrupted Offertory | [262] |
| A Flaw in the “Eenditement” | [267] |
| Old Wine—New Bottles | [271] |
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| A Glossary of the Gullah | [277] |
| The Tar-Baby Story, as Told by Col. C. C. Jones and Joel Chandler Harris | [343] |