MCM
Copyright, 1900, by Harper & Brothers:
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ELLEN
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Old Cinder Cat | [1] |
| “A Kingdom for Micajah” | [23] |
| The Devil’s Little Fly | [53] |
| Asmodeus in the Quarters | [77] |
| The Taming of Jezrul | [91] |
| Dark er de Moon | [105] |
| The Other Maumer | [133] |
| Stolen Fire | [157] |
| The Black Cat | [167] |
| ’Liza | [193] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| “HE HEAR ALL DE SECRETS ER DER CREEPIN’ THINGS” | [Frontispiece] |
| Facing p. | |
| “‘’CASE DE HOODOO AM ER ’OMAN’” | [8] |
| “SHE FOLLOWED OLD CINDER CAT” | [12] |
| “THE CHARM WAS FOREVER BROKEN, AND THE COMELY HOODOO KNEW IT” | [18] |
| “‘PERZACKLY LACK OLE MARSE’” | [30] |
| “‘GO ON AND HAVE A GOOD TIME, MICAJAH’” | [36] |
| “HE COLLARED HIS ASTONISHED LITTLE NIGGER” | [46] |
| “UNDER THE TREES IN THE WOOD-LOT” | [80] |
| “HE DES FOLLER UV ’EM EVER NIGHT” | [82] |
| “HE HEAR MISSAR JONES’S SAMBO FIVE MILES AWAY” | [84] |
| “SHADRACH HE RIZ WID HE OWN COAT-TAILS” | [86] |
| “IN DE SHAPE UV ER BIG JACK-RABBIT” | [88] |
| “‘OH! THE HORROR OF THE THING’” | [94] |
| “‘BURN! BURN!’” | [98] |
| “AN’ CRECY WERE WID ’EM” | [102] |
| “‘I GWINE WARM YO’ BIMEBY’” | [114] |
| “‘DEY RETCH AN’ STRETCH TODES ONE ’NUTHER’” | [116] |
| UNC’ JAH AND THE DEVIL SNAKE | [118] |
| “UNC’ ’JAH AIN’T TALKIN’” | [120] |
| “AN’ SPLIT DE WIN’ DES ’HINE DE FLY” | [122] |
| “‘AN’ SHO’ BEAT DE GRASSHOPPER’” | [124] |
| “‘DEY FLEWED AN’ DEY FLEWED’” | [126] |
| “AN’ GIB ONE LAS’ AWFUL HOWL” | [128] |
| “HER HEART WAS NOT IN HER WORK” | [136] |
| “SHOULD SHE DO IT?” | [142] |
| “‘FLY, FLY,’ SHE WHISPERED” | [148] |
| “SHE CAME ON BAT’S WINGS” | [150] |
| “‘DE BUTTERFLIES DONE COME BACK’” | [152] |
INTRODUCTION
The sunlight drifting through an avenue of live-oaks sifts dappled gold upon the well-known gig that has splashed through miles and miles of the waxy “buckshot” mud, and now winds slowly up the driveway to stop before the broad white pillars of the “Big House.”