A LITTLE NOTE TO A LITTLE BOOK.
Reading edition
The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some are Middle Georgia folklore stories, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions.
They were all written in the midst of daily work on a morning newspaper,—a fact that will account in some measure for their crude setting.
J. C. H.
West End, Atlanta, Ga.