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Title: Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country

Author: Joel Chandler Harris

Illustrator: Oliver Herford

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Language: English

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LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER
AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY

What the Children Saw and Heard there

BY

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
AUTHOR OF "UNCLE REMUS," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY OLIVER HERFORD_

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895

Copyright, 1894,
BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AND
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company

Books by Joel Chandler Harris.

NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.50; paper, 50 cents.

MINGO, AND OTHER SKETCHES IN BLACK
AND WHITE. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents.

BALAAM AND HIS MASTER, AND OTHER
SKETCHES. 16mo, $1.25.

UNCLE REMUS AND HIS FRIENDS. Illustrated.
12mo, $1.50.

LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS
QUEER COUNTRY. Illustrated. Crown 8vo,
$2.00

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

[Illustration: MR. RABBIT FELL KERTHUMP. Page 41.]

A LITTLE NOTE TO A LITTLE BOOK.

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