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 chorus singing, secured an ableorator, and the best essayist in town."
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A Collection of Stories
Reprint, 1904
Dodd, Mead and Co., New York.
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
THE HEART OF HAPPY HOLLOW
To My Friend
Ezra M. Kuhns
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Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonisein the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, theporter,