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] |