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• "Squire Matthews, that was justice of the peace" . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frontispiece
• "All of a sudden, a live fish come a whirling out of that hole . . . and it lands ker-plump into Mis' Rogers's lap" . . .22
• "Man alive! You don't know what disease you may have! . . . Stick out your tongue!'" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
• The Swede . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
• "Arise, Sir Marmeluke, I dub you a night'". . . . . . . .80
• "One of the things we have every night in the show is an Injun dance" . . . . . . . . .100
• "You don't know what a cruel, weak stomach your hubby has got . . . or you wouldn't bear down quite so hard onto it — please, Dolly!'" . . . . . . . . . . . .114
• James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140
• "Lifting one of them boxes down from the wagon I got such a shock I liked to of dropped her" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
• "A bare-headed old nigger with a game leg . . . went limping up to the veranda as fast as he could" . . . . . . . . . . . .182
• "I'se mos' ingin'lly notice a thing do settle hitse'f arter a while'" . . . . . . . . . .188
• "Old Doctor Jackson, the man with an idea". . . . . . . 198
• "Glory be! Hyah dey comes! Hyah dey comes now!'" . . . . . . . . . .226
• "Billy Harden was in the state legislature, and quite a speaker, and knowed it". . . . . . . . . . . 256
• "The usual ones around the depot rubbered at us" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .310
• "Everybody has read in books . . . about children being left on door steps" . .332