CONTENTS PREFACE. STORIES OF GEORGIA. A SEARCH FOR TREASURE. OGLETHORPE AND HIS GENTLE COLONY THE EMPRESS OF GEORGIA THE LIBERTY BOYS. A GROUP OF CHARACTERS AUNT NANCY HART. TWO SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. A WAR OF EXTERMINATION. A NEGRO PATRIOT. THE YAZOO FRAUD GEORGE MATTHEWS AND JOHN CLARKE. AFTER THE REVOLUTION. THE COTTON GIN. SOME GEORGIA INVENTIONS. THE EARLY PROGRESS OF THE STATE. THE CREEKS AND THE CREEK WAR TWO FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS. REMOVAL OF THE CHEROKEES. THE BEGINNING OF PARTIES IN GEORGIA. A QUEER CASE. GEORGIA WIT AND HUMOR. SLAVERY AND SECESSION. THE FARMER BOY OF GADDISTOWN. GEORGIA IN THE WAR. A DARING ADVENTURE. THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. "THE NEW SOUTH" ILLUSTRATIONS De Soto Indian Queen Oglethorpe Mary Musgrove Empress Mary The Liberty Boys Tondee's Tavern Seisure of Ammunition in Savannah The Head of Robert Sallette Mcgirth and his Mare Captain Rory Mcintosh Aunt Nancy Hart Aunt Nancy Captures the Tories General James Jackson Elijah Clarke A War of Extermination Old Man Whipped at the Tail of a Cart A Negro Patriot The Yazoo Scheme Rope to Hang Musgrove George Matthews and John Clarke After the Revolution Early Cultivation of Cotton Whitney and his Cotton Gin William Longstreet and his Steamboat Laughing Gas Early Progress of the State British Impressement of Americans The Creek War Major Adams Scouting and Indian Camp Mcgillavray Joins the Indians Indian Attack General Clarke Whips Judge Tait A Queer Case The Bunkley Trial Judge Dooly The Roast Pig Georgia Politics Joe Brown and his Steers Georgia in the War The Salt Famine Capture of the Locomotive Tearing up the Rails The Negroes Freed Streetcar in the South FREE JOE And Other Georgian Sketches By Joel Chandler Harris ILLUSTRATED CONTENTS PAGE Free Joe 3 Little Compton 30 Aunt Fountain's Prisoner 98 Trouble on Lost Mountain 133 Azalia 183 GABRIEL TOLLIVER A Story of Reconstruction By Joel Chandler Harris