NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1892,
BY
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.
[All rights reserved.]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
“They wuz Tracts and Bibles”[7]
Uncle Nate Gowdey[12]
“The Dumb Fools!”[18]
A Black[21]
“The old and feeble Ones”[30]
“I sot demute”[34]
“The dark Faces of these Apostles”[40]
“With Philury’s Help”[46]
Character Sketch[51]
“When Ury had that Fight with Sam”[56]
Melinda[61]
Melinda has a Fit[63]
“It wuz ‘Hold the Fort’ he belched out in”[69]
“I ketched her by her Limb”[73]
Peter and Melinda Ann[77]
Deacon Henzy[83]
“Josiah’s bald Head and Mine”[86]
The Colored Children[93]
Old Dr. Cork[99]
The Slave Woman who poisoned the Child[104]
Madeline[110]
Colonel Seybert[122]
“Low, brutal, envious Mind”[128]
Defending his Home[133]
The Leader[138]
Felix and the Teacher[143]
“The Old, the Feeble”[149]
“His Overseer”[153]
“A little tumble-down Cottage”[155]
Cleopatra[156]
Rosy[161]
“He wuz glad to set down”[167]
The old Negro[172]
“Gawge Perkins am Daid”[176]
One of the Mourners[179]
“You can repair your Dwellin’ House”[185]
“And I have got the Pans”[189]
“I am needed there”[192]
“The Butter-Maker up in Zoar”[194]
“Josiah give up”[196]
Deacon Huffer[208]
“Under the white Cross”[211]
The Jonesvillians[215]
“Boy laughed”[220]
Raymond Fairfax Coleman[223]
“With a jumpin’ Toothache”[225]
“The Relation on Maggie’s Side”[230]
Babe[237]
“My Tone riz up”[239]
“I had been out a walkin’”[242]
A Poor White[244]
Rosy’s Baby[254]
Ury[256]
Some Neighbors[258]
Aunt Mela[264]
“Despatched to get Buttermilk”[271]
“The big Piazza”[277]
“A perfect Dagon”[279]
A Ku-Kluxer[291]
“Pilot a Helpless Unionist”[296]
“Set down in our Swamp”[301]
“He hastened off”[305]
“To kiss Snow and Boy good-night”[308]
“And killed her Hens”[312]
“Onexpected Company”[316]
“Misery”[320]
“Wherefoah, Bredren, let us pray”[322]
Abe[326]
“He wuz a walkin’ up and down”[331]
“This dark Earth Valley”[334]
Hiram Wiggins’s two Daughters[338]
“A clear River running through”[343]
“Everything wuz ready”[347]
“In the Chair of the Ruler”[353]
“Faced the Gang of masked Men”[360]
“When the Moon had risen”[363]
“Exiled Birds”[369]
Victor[373]
“Makin’ Speeches”[375]
Father Gasperin[378]
“Felix, his Wife and Little Ned”[380]
“I sot out on the Stoop”[384]