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Title: The heart of happy hollow
A collection of stories

Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Release Date: February 29, 2008 [EBook #24716]

Language: English

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Dialect and inconsistent spelling have been preserved.

In The Scapegoat, Part II, text appears to be missing between
"hard" and "brought" in the sentence "The school-teacher is
giving you a pretty hard brought the school-children in for
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in town."

THE HEART OF
HAPPY HOLLOW

_A Collection of Stories_

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Reprint, 1904
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York.

_Contents_

_Foreword_ 3

_One_: THE SCAPEGOAT 5

_Two_: ONE CHRISTMAS AT SHILOH 21

_Three_: THE MISSION OF MR. SCATTERS 29

_Four_: A MATTER OF DOCTRINE 45

_Five_: OLD ABE'S CONVERSION 53

_Six_: THE RACE QUESTION 63

_Seven_: A DEFENDER OF THE FAITH 67

_Eight_: CAHOOTS 73

_Nine_: THE PROMOTER 81

_Ten_: THE WISDOM OF SILENCE 95

_Eleven_: THE TRIUMPH OF OL' MIS' PEASE 103

_Twelve_: THE LYNCHING OF JUBE BENSON 111

_Thirteen_: SCHWALLIGER'S PHILANTHROPY 121

_Fourteen_: THE INTERFERENCE OF PATSY ANN 129

_Fifteen_: THE HOME-COMING OF 'RASTUS SMITH 137

_Sixteen_: THE BOY AND THE BAYONET 145

To My Friend
Ezra M. Kuhns

_Foreword_

Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise
in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, the
porter, and the waiter are the society men of the town; wherever the
picnic and the excursion are the chief summer diversion, and the revival
the winter time of repentance, wherever the cheese cloth veil obtains at
a wedding, and the little white hearse goes by with black mourners in
the one carriage behind, there--there--is Happy Hollow. Wherever
laughte