ILLUSTRATIONS

“HE HEAR ALL DE SECRETS ER DER CREEPIN’ THINGS”[Frontispiece]
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“‘’CASE DE HOODOO AM ER ’OMAN’”[8]
“SHE FOLLOWED OLD CINDER CAT”[12]
“THE CHARM WAS FOREVER BROKEN, AND THE COMELY HOODOO KNEW IT”[18]
“‘PERZACKLY LACK OLE MARSE’”[30]
“‘GO ON AND HAVE A GOOD TIME, MICAJAH’”[36]
“HE COLLARED HIS ASTONISHED LITTLE NIGGER”[46]
“UNDER THE TREES IN THE WOOD-LOT”[80]
“HE DES FOLLER UV ’EM EVER NIGHT”[82]
“HE HEAR MISSAR JONES’S SAMBO FIVE MILES AWAY”[84]
“SHADRACH HE RIZ WID HE OWN COAT-TAILS”[86]
“IN DE SHAPE UV ER BIG JACK-RABBIT”[88]
“‘OH! THE HORROR OF THE THING’”[94]
“‘BURN! BURN!’”[98]
“AN’ CRECY WERE WID ’EM”[102]
“‘I GWINE WARM YO’ BIMEBY’”[114]
“‘DEY RETCH AN’ STRETCH TODES ONE ’NUTHER’”[116]
UNC’ JAH AND THE DEVIL SNAKE[118]
“UNC’ ’JAH AIN’T TALKIN’”[120]
“AN’ SPLIT DE WIN’ DES ’HINE DE FLY”[122]
“‘AN’ SHO’ BEAT DE GRASSHOPPER’”[124]
“‘DEY FLEWED AN’ DEY FLEWED’”[126]
“AN’ GIB ONE LAS’ AWFUL HOWL”[128]
“HER HEART WAS NOT IN HER WORK”[136]
“SHOULD SHE DO IT?”[142]
“‘FLY, FLY,’ SHE WHISPERED”[148]
“SHE CAME ON BAT’S WINGS”[150]
“‘DE BUTTERFLIES DONE COME BACK’”[152]