E-text prepared by David Edwards, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 36370-h.htm or 36370-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36370/pg36370-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36370/36370-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/bishopboogerman00harrrich THE BISHOP AND THE BOOGERMAN Being the Story of a Little Truly-Girl, Who Grew Up; Her Mysterious Companion; Her Crabbed Old Uncle; the Whish-Whish Woods; a Very Civil Engineer, and Mr. Billy Sanders the Sage of Shady Dale by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS Drawings by Charlotte Harding New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1909 All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Copyright, 1907, by Sunny South Publishing Co. Copyright, 1909, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, January, 1909 [Illustration: "They paused--then she pointed to the darkest corner"] ILLUSTRATIONS "They paused--then she pointed to the darkest corner" "It seemed to Adelaide that it held a whole bushel of fried chicken and biscuits" "The child stared at her uncle so seriously that he was actually embarrassed" "Old Jonas would listen by her bedside to convince himself that she was really breathing" "They began to creep forward, making as little noise as possible" "'You are pouting,' she said, 'or you'd never be sitting in this room where nobody ever comes'" "'That's why you see these shoes lookin' like they're spang new'" "Mr. Sanders went from the courthouse with a sweeping stride" THE BISHOP AND THE BOOGERMAN PART I The old Pig went to wander, The other went far to roam And, at last, when night was falling, And a little Pig was calling Never a one came home. --_Rhunewalt's Ballads of Life_.