[Illustration: Meh Marster, you mo’ an’ mo’ like Mars Francis ev’y day, same bright eyes, like uh fish hawk’s, but sorf an’ big. ] OLE MARS AN’ OLE MISS BY EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, M. D. [Illustration] WASHINGTON, D. C.: NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., 1900. COPYRIGHT, 1900 BY EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH, M. D. ILLUSTRATIONS ❧❧ _Ole Mars_, _Frontispiece_ _Page_ _Miss Sanson in the saddle_, _8_ _Ef’n you don’ git of’n dat cow I’ll whup you tell dere ain’ no bref lef’ in you_, _14_ _Tench Tilghman_, _18_ _Anne Francis_, _20_ _Miss Henrietta’s gift that hung over the pulpit_, _28_ _Tench Francis_, _32_ _Mars Pinckney when a boy_, _48_ _Pawson Demby baptizing Tilly Mink just after cutting ice_, _50_ _Mars Pinckney’s home, “Fausley,”_ _62_ _The picture on the face of the Moses clock_, _78_ _Mars Torm fishing in Black Creek_, _90_ _Rob Roy and Rose_, _94_ _Yo’ gwine ter merry uh King an’ hab thutteen chillun_, _106_ _Dem two gals, Marfy an’ Muhtilda, out da in de watah sorf crabbin’, is meh gran’chillun_, _112_ _Deah gre’t gran’mammy gibs ’em too much cawn-bred, an’ hit natchelly puts noshuns in deah haids_, _114_ _Ole Mars had de gre’tes’ confluence in meh ’rasity_, _118_ _Scipio Jonas Jones and Nimrod_, _120_ _So I bine meh haid up’n uh hankcheah an’ wen’ ter see Ole Mars’ boutin Saul_, _128_ _Black Creek Falls_, _136_ _Ole Mistis at sweet sixteen_, _140_ _Ole Miss (Miss Henrietta)_, _152_ _Black Creek Ford_, _170_ _Skylark_, _172_ _Mars Matthew_, _174_