Transcriber's Note:
Dialect and inconsistent spelling have been preserved.
In The Scapegoat, Part II, text appears to be missing between ["hard" and "brought"] in the sentence "The school-teacher is giving you a pretty hard brought the school-children in for chorus singing, secured an able orator, and the best essayist in town."
THE HEART OF
HAPPY HOLLOW
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A Collection of Stories
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Reprint, 1904
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York.