_By E. K. Means_ --- E. K. Means More E. K. Means Further E. K. Means ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: “Dey calls me Little Bit.” Drawn by E. W. Kemble. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FURTHER E. K. MEANS _Is this a title? It is not. It is the name of a writer of negro stories, who has made himself so completely =the= writer of negro stories that this third book, like the first and second, needs no title._ ILLUSTRATED BY KEMBLE G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1921 BY E. K. MEANS [Illustration: The Buscherbucher Press New York ] _Printed in the United States of America_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE THE LEFT HIND FOOT 1 THE ’FRAID-CAT 136 THE CONSOLATION PRIZE 171 THE FIRST HIGH JANITOR 212 FAMILY TIES 243 THE TEN-SHARE HORSE 263 A CHARIOT OF FIRE 286 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Left Hind Foot I ANGELS He was the most innocent-looking chap you ever saw. He had the face of a cherub, eyes which inhabit the faces of angels, and a smile which every woman envied. During her lifetime his mother had called him an angel. His sister composed a title for him from the initials of his name, and for short called him Org. The neighbors called him—if everything the neighbors called him should be recorded, this story would have to be fumigated at the very start.