ILLUSTRATIONS

Ole Mars, Frontispiece

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Miss Sanson in the saddle, 8

Ef’n you don’ git of’n dat cow I’ll whup you tell dere ain’ no bref lef’ in you, 14

Tench Tilghman, 18

Anne Francis, 20

Miss Henrietta’s gift that hung over the pulpit, 28

Tench Francis, 32

Mars Pinckney when a boy, 48

Pawson Demby baptizing Tilly Mink just after cutting ice, 50

Mars Pinckney’s home, “Fausley,” 62

The picture on the face of the Moses clock, 78

Mars Torm fishing in Black Creek, 90

Rob Roy and Rose, 94

Yo’ gwine ter merry uh King an’ hab thutteen chillun, 106

Dem two gals, Marfy an’ Muhtilda, out da in de watah sorf crabbin’, is meh gran’chillun, 112

Deah gre’t gran’mammy gibs ’em too much cawn-bred, an’ hit natchelly puts noshuns in deah haids, 114

Ole Mars had de gre’tes’ confluence in meh ’rasity, 118

Scipio Jonas Jones and Nimrod, 120

So I bine meh haid up’n uh hankcheah an’ wen’ ter see Ole Mars’ boutin Saul, 128

Black Creek Falls, 136

Ole Mistis at sweet sixteen, 140

Ole Miss (Miss Henrietta), 152

Black Creek Ford, 170

Skylark, 172

Mars Matthew, 174

Ezra, 176

Miss Mary, 182

Mars Arthur, 184

Miss Sanson, 190

Mars Torm, 194

Ezra and the children, 196

Mammy, 212