ILLUSTRATED BY G. H. CLEMENTS
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916
Copyright, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, by
The Century Co.
Published, October, 1913
To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children—a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.