MR. RABBIT FELL KERTHUMP. [Page 41.]
A LITTLE NOTE TO A LITTLE BOOK.
The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some are Middle Georgia folklore stories, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions.
They were all written in the midst of daily work on a morning newspaper,—a fact that will account in some measure for their crude setting.
J. C. H.
West End, Atlanta, Ga.