ILLUSTRATED BY
A. B. FROST

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK 1899

Copyright, 1899, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

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I.An Evening with the Ku-Klux[1]
II.“When Jess went a-fiddlin’”[34]
III.How Aunt Minervy Ann Ran Away and Ran Back Again[70]
IV.How She Joined the Georgia Legislature[97]
V.How She Went Into Business[119]
VI.How She and Major Perdue Frailed Out the Gossett Boys[139]
VII.Major Perdue’s Bargain[157]
VIII.The Case of Mary Ellen[182]

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