THE BLACK BORDER

GULLAH STORIES OF THE CAROLINA COAST

(With a Glossary)

AMBROSE E. GONZALES

COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE STATE COMPANY
1922

TO
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

	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]

A Glossary of the Gullah	[277]
The Tar-Baby Story, as Told by Col. C. C. Jones and Joel Chandler Harris	[343]

CONTENTS