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Title: Southern Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas

Author: Various

Release Date: December 6, 2007 [EBook #23751]

Language: English

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SOUTHERN STORIES

RETOLD FROM ST. NICHOLAS

[Illustration]

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1907

Copyright, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1898, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1907,
by THE CENTURY CO.

THE DE VINNE PRESS

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[Illustration: A REAL UNCLE REMUS STORY.]

CONTENTS

PAGE

A REAL UNCLE REMUS STORY _Frontispiece_

HIS HERO _Margaret Minor_ 3

JERICHO BOB _Anna Eichberg King_ 18

HOW WE BOUGHT LOUISIANA _Helen Lockwood Coffin_ 28

THE CITY THAT LIVES OUTDOORS _W. S. Harwood_ 34

QUEER AMERICAN RIVERS _F. H. Spearman_ 52

THE WATERMELON STOCKINGS _Alice Caldwell Hegan_ 65

THE "'GATOR" _Clarence B. Moore_ 80

THE EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON _Ewing Gibson_ 96

HIDING PLACES IN WAR TIMES _J. H. Gore_ 102

ST. AUGUSTINE _Frank R. Stockton_ 108

CATCHING TERRAPIN _Alfred Kappes_ 126

"LOCOED" _Edward Marshall_ 130

A DIVIDED DUTY _M. A. Cassidy_ 165

THE "WALKING-BEAM BOY" _L. E. Stofiel_ 178

THE CREATURE WITH NO CLAWS _Joel Chandler Harris_ 185

SOUTHERN STORIES

SOUTH

Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit-trees;
Under the feet a garden of flowers, a