Nights With Uncle Remus

by Joel Chandler Harris

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Topknot, foretop.

[2] Persuaded.

[3] Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, p. 70 (New York: D. Appleton & Co.).

[4] Disease.

[5] Or Wull-er-de-Wuts. Probably a fantastic corruption of "will-o'-the-wisp," though this is not by any means certain.

[6] Preserves.

[7] In the South, a rain is called a "season," not only by the negroes, but by many white farmers.

[8] It is a far-away sound that might be identified with one of the various undertones of silence, but it is palpable enough (if the word may be used) to have attracted the attention of the humble philosophers of the old plantation.

[9] Measuring.