| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I] | The Rooster Telephone | [21] |
| [II] | Old Man Gully’s Hant | [37] |
| [III] | Jack O’Lantern and the Glow Worm | [57] |
| [IV] | Miss Race Hoss an’ de Fleas | [79] |
| [V] | Miss Race Hoss’s Party | [91] |
| [VI] | Ned Dog and Billy Goat | [107] |
| [VII] | How the Billy Goat Lost His Tail | [121] |
| [VIII] | Shoo Fly | [139] |
| [IX] | Election Day | [153] |
| [X] | Mister Bad ’Simmon Tree | [177] |
| [XI] | Big Eye Buzzard | [197] |
| [XII] | Miss Lilly Dove | [219] |
| [XIII] | Mister Grab-all Spider | [243] |
| [XIV] | Mister Rattlesnake | [261] |
| [XV] | Miss Queen Bee | [281] |
| [XVI] | Mister Tall Pine’s Christmas Tree | [301] |
| [XVII] | An Afterword | [319] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
(From drawings by Duncan Smith.)
| “Des like she rub’in on yorn” | [Frontispiece] |
| PAGE | |
| “Dat ole roost’r squattin’ und’r de baid ain’ nuv’r tak’n his eyes off’n Abe” | [50] |
| “Hep! Hep!—Somebody come hope me!” | [60] |
| “Wid dat dey all uv ’em lose dey manners an’ start ter ’busin’ Brer Bar scand’lous” | [102] |
| “Shoo Fly holl’r, ‘Look out fur m’ legs!’” | [148] |
| “Bimeby he git ax’d ter be er pawl b’arer ter all uv ’em” | [206] |
| “Mist’r Grab-All, ’cose you gwine jine de Yall’r Jackits’ side, ain’t yer?” | [244] |