The heart of happy hollow

The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories

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." Foreword 3 One: THE SCAPEGOAT 5 Two: ONE CHRISTMAS AT SHILOH 21 Three: THE MISSION OF MR. SCATTERS 29 Four: A MATTER OF DOCTRINE 45 Five: OLD ABE'S CONVERSION 53 Six: THE RACE QUESTION 63 Seven: A DEFENDER OF THE FAITH 67 Eight: CAHOOTS 73 Nine: THE PROMOTER 81 Ten: THE WISDOM OF SILENCE 95 Eleven: THE TRIUMPH OF OL' MIS' PEASE 103 Twelve: THE LYNCHING OF JUBE BENSON 111 Thirteen: SCHWALLIGER'S PHILANTHROPY 121 Fourteen: THE INTERFERENCE OF PATSY ANN 129 Fifteen: THE HOME-COMING OF 'RASTUS SMITH 137 Sixteen: THE BOY AND THE BAYONET 145 Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, the porter, and the waiter are the society men of the town; wherever the picnic and the excursion are the chief summer diversion, and the revival the winter time of repentance, wherever the cheese cloth veil obtains at a wedding, and the little white hearse goes by with black mourners in the one carriage behind, therethereis Happy Hollow. Wherever laughter and tears rub elbows day by day, and the spirit of labour and laziness shake hands, therethereis Happy Hollow, and of some of it may the following pages show the heart. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 24716
Author: Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Release Date: Feb 29, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English