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Transcriber's Note:
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."
THE HEART OF
HAPPY HOLLOW
_A Collection of Stories_
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
Reprint, 1904
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York.
_Contents_
_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
To My Friend
Ezra M. Kuhns
_Foreword_
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, there--there--is Happy Hollow. Wherever
laughter and tears rub elbows day by day, and the spirit of labour and
laziness shake hands, there--there--is Happy Hollow, and of some of it
may the following pages show the heart.
The Author.
_One_