Transcriber's Note:
Dialect and inconsistent spelling have been preserved.
In The Scapegoat, Part II, text appears to be missing between ["hard" and "brought"] in the sentence "The school-teacher is giving you a pretty hard brought the school-children in for chorus singing, secured an able orator, and the best essayist in town."
THE HEART OF
HAPPY HOLLOW
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A Collection of Stories
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Reprint, 1904
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York.
Contents
Foreword [3]
One: THE SCAPEGOAT [5]
Two: ONE CHRISTMAS AT SHILOH [21]
Three: THE MISSION OF MR. SCATTERS [29]
Four: A MATTER OF DOCTRINE [45]
Five: OLD ABE'S CONVERSION [53]
Six: THE RACE QUESTION [63]
Seven: A DEFENDER OF THE FAITH [67]
Eight: CAHOOTS [73]
Nine: THE PROMOTER [81]
Ten: THE WISDOM OF SILENCE [95]
Eleven: THE TRIUMPH OF OL' MIS' PEASE [103]
Twelve: THE LYNCHING OF JUBE BENSON [111]
Thirteen: SCHWALLIGER'S PHILANTHROPY [121]
Fourteen: THE INTERFERENCE OF PATSY ANN [129]
Fifteen: THE HOME-COMING OF 'RASTUS SMITH [137]
Sixteen: THE BOY AND THE BAYONET [145]
THE HEART OF HAPPY HOLLOW
To My Friend
Ezra M. Kuhns
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Foreword
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, the porter, and the waiter are the society men of the town; wherever the picnic and the excursion are the chief summer diversion, and the revival the winter time of repentance, wherever the cheese cloth veil obtains at a wedding, and the little white hearse goes by with black mourners in the one carriage behind, there—there—is Happy Hollow. Wherever laughter and tears rub elbows day by day, and the spirit of labour and laziness shake hands, there—there—is Happy Hollow, and of some of it may the following pages show the heart.
The Author.
One
THE SCAPEGOAT