Front matter
Reading edition
Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1900
Original
Original
DEDICATION
TO JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE KINDLY ENCOURAGEMENT
WHICH MADE THIS BOOK POSSIBLE.
THE AUTHOR
I am indebted to the publishers of The Century Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, Book News, The Black Cat, and to the Bachelier Syndicate for the courteous permission to reprint the sketches contained in this volume.
WILL N. HARBEN.
Dalton, Ga.
CONTENTS
A HUMBLE ABOLITIONIST
THE WHIPPING OF UNCLE HENRY
A FILIAL IMPULSE
THE SALE OF UNCLE RASTUS
THE CONVICT’S RETURN
A RURAL VISITOR
JIM TRUNDLE’S CRISIS
THE COURAGE OF ERICSON
THE HERESY OF ABNER CALIHAN
THE TENDER LINK