THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1916, 1917, by
P.F. COLLIER & SON, INC.

_Published, November, 1917_




TO MY AUNT
AND SECOND MOTHER

JULIA ROSS LOW




FOREWORD


Though much has been written of the South, it seems to me that this part
of our country is less understood than any other part. Certainly the
South, itself, feels that this is true. Its relationship to the North
makes me think of nothing so much as that of a pretty, sensitive wife,
to a big, strong, amiable, if somewhat thick-skinned husband. These two
had one great quarrel which nearly resulted in divorce. He thought her
headstrong; she thought him overbearing. The quarrel made her ill; she
has been for some time recovering. But though they have settled their
difficulties and are living again in amity together, and though he,