VII. Poor Ann 92

VIII. Uncle Bob's Proposition 106

IX. Aunt Edy's Story 111

X. Plantation Games 119

XI. Diddie In Trouble 128

XII. How The Woodpecker's Head And The Robin's Breast
Came To Be Red 140

XIII. A Plantation Meeting, And Uncle Daniel's Sermon 152

XIV. Diddie And Dumps Go Visiting 166

XV. The Fourth Of July 182

XVI. "'Struck'n uv de Chil'en" 199

XVII. What Became Of Them 212




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