heart of happy hollow, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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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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Transcriber's Note:

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 able orator, and the best essayist 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

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