“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