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The Black Border

by Ambrose Elliott Gonzalez

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Author
Gonzalez, Ambrose Elliott, 1857-1926
Title
The black border : Gullah stories of the Carolina coast (with a glossary)
Original Publication
Columbia: The State Company, 1922.
Credits
Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Sea Islands Creole dialect -- Texts
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 71432
Release Date
August 18, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BLACK BORDER
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.FOREWORD
  6. 6.THE BLACK BORDER
  7. 7.NOBLESSE OBLIGE
  8. 8.“MY MAUSSUH”
  9. 9.AN ANTEMORTEM DEMISE
  10. 10.THE LION OF LEWISBURG
  11. 11.THE LION KILLER
  12. 12.“OLD BARNEY”
  13. 13.“BILLYBEDAM”
  14. 14.A SHORT CUT TO JUSTICE
  15. 15.SAM DICKERSON
  16. 16.SIMON, THE “SQUERRIL” HUNTER
  17. 17.THE “CUNJUH” THAT CAME BACK
  18. 18.THE RACCOON HUNTER
  19. 19.THE TURKEY HUNTER
  20. 20.THE GATOR HUNTER
  21. 21.“THE WILES THAT IN THE WOMEN ARE”
  22. 22.A RICEFIELD IDYLL
  23. 23.THE DOWER HOUSE
  24. 24.AT THE CROSS ROADS STORE
  25. 25.MINGO, THE DRILL MASTER
  26. 26.“OLD HARRISON”
  27. 27.A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
  28. 28.THE PLAT-EYE
  29. 29.“OLD PICKETT”
  30. 30.THE LOST BUCK
  31. 31.JIM MOULTRIE’S DIVORCE
  32. 32.“BUH ALLIGETTUH EN’ BUH DEER”
  33. 33.BUH HAWSS EN’ BUH MULE A FABLE
  34. 34.LISS “BIN EENSULT”
  35. 35.THE RETORT COURTEOUS
  36. 36.THE CAT WAS CRAZY
  37. 37.A CONGAREE WATER-COLOR
  38. 38.WAITING TILL THE BRIDEGROOMS COME
  39. 39.A GULLAH’S TALE OF WOE
  40. 40.THE DOCTOR DIDN’T “EXCEED”
  41. 41.THE LADY COULDN’T “SPECIFY”
  42. 42.A QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE
  43. 43.CONDUCTOR SMITH’S DILEMMA
  44. 44.ONE WAS TAKEN—THE OTHER LEFT
  45. 45.EGG-ZACTLY
  46. 46.AN INTERRUPTED OFFERTORY
  47. 47.A FLAW IN THE “EENDITEMENT”
  48. 48.OLD WINE—NEW BOTTLES
  49. 49.A GULLAH GLOSSARY
  50. 50.Vocabulary
  51. 51.THE TAR BABY STORY AS TOLD BY COL. C. C. JONES AND JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
  52. 52.Buh Wolf, Buh Rabbit, and de Tar Baby Jones’s Version
  53. 53.The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story Harris’s Version
  54. 54.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Notes

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