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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• Sut Lovingood's Daddy, Acting Horse 19

• Sut's New Fangled Shirt, (a brilliant idea) 29

• The Widow McCloud's Mare 37

• Parson Bullin's Lizards, (retribution) 48

• A Razor Grinder in a Thunder Storm 60

• Old Skissim's Middle Boy 66

• Blown up with Soda 75

• Sicily Burns's Wedding 86

• Old Burns's Bull Ride 98

• Snake-bit Irishman 108

• Eaves-dropping a Lodge of Free-masons 114

• Taurus in Lynchburg Market 123

• Mrs. Yardley's Quilting 134

• Sut Lovingood's Dog 149

• Sut Assisting at a Negro Night-Meeting 157

• Sut's Sermon—“Ye Cat Fishe Tavern” 173

• Bart Davis's Dance (a lively time) 181

• Tripetown—Twenty Minutes for Breakfast 193

• Hen Baily's Reformation 198

• Frustrating a Funeral (never to be read by candle light) 210

• Rare Ripe Garden-seed (for newly married folks) 227

• Contempt of Court—Almost 245

• Trapping a Sheriff (a vile conspiracy) 256

• Dad's Dog School (“jist like 'im”) 278

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