“THE RELATION ON MAGGIE’S SIDE” 230 BABE 237 “MY TONE RIZ UP” 239 “I HAD BEEN OUT A WALKIN’” 242 A POOR WHITE 244 ROSY’S BABY 254 URY 256 SOME NEIGHBORS 258 AUNT MELA 264 “DESPATCHED TO GET BUTTERMILK” 271 “THE BIG PIAZZA” 277 “A PERFECT DAGON” 279 A KU-KLUXER 291 “PILOT A HELPLESS UNIONIST” 296 “SET DOWN IN OUR SWAMP” 301 “HE HASTENED OFF” 305 “TO KISS SNOW AND BOY GOOD-NIGHT” 308 “AND KILLED HER HENS” 312 “ONEXPECTED COMPANY” 316 “MISERY” 320 “WHEREFOAH, BREDREN, LET US PRAY” 322 ABE 326 “HE WUZ A WALKIN’ UP AND DOWN” 331 “THIS DARK EARTH VALLEY” 334 HIRAM WIGGINS’S TWO DAUGHTERS 338 “A CLEAR RIVER RUNNING THROUGH” 343 “EVERYTHING WUZ READY” 347 “IN THE CHAIR OF THE RULER” 353 “FACED THE GANG OF MASKED MEN” 360 “WHEN THE MOON HAD RISEN” 363 “EXILED BIRDS” 369 VICTOR 373 “MAKIN’ SPEECHES” 375 FATHER GASPERIN 378 “FELIX, HIS WIFE AND LITTLE NED” 380 “I SOT OUT ON THE STOOP” 384 [Illustration: “THEY WUZ TRACTS AND BIBLES.”] CHAPTER I. IT was entirely onexpected and onlooked for. But I took it as a Decree, and done as well as I could, which is jest as well as anybody ought to be expected to do under any circumstances, either on my side or on hisen. It was one of the relations on his side that come on to us entirely onexpected and on the evenin’ stage that runs from Jonesville to Loontown. He was a passin’ through this part of the country on business, so he stopped off at Jonesville to see us. He come with his portmanty and a satchel, and I mistrusted, after consultin’ them signs in the privacy of my own mind, that he had come to stay for quite a spell. But I found in the fulness of time that my worst apprehensions wuz not realized. I found instead of pantaloons and vests and things which I suspected wuz in the big satchel, I found out they wuz tracts and Bibles.