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Saturday night sketches; stories of old wiregrass Georgia

J. L. Herring · 1918 · Scanned text · Free in the US

63,112 words · about 4 h 25 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1918, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/18004260); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
J. L. Herring
Language
English
Published
1918
Length
63,112 words · about 4 h 25 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Introduction about 1 min
  3. II «4 Contents about 4 h 23 min
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Front matter

SHTURDHY' NIGHT SRGTGHeS

J'L'HGRRinG

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Introduction

Saturday Night .

The Fire in Morris's Wagon Yard

The Song of the Redeemed .

When the Debaters Met

Cane Grinding Time .

"Running Up" the Bridegroom

When We Put Jim Away .

Fodder-pulh'ng Time .

The Conversion .

Uncle Wiley's Turkey Pen .

Grandma's Spinning Wheel .

Sunday at Obediah Gay's

Carrying the Cotton to Market

The Cape Jessamine

A Candy-pulling in the Wiregrass

Corn Liquor and Tutt's Pills

A Wiregrass Easter

An Old-time Wiregrass Frolic

Cat-fishing in the Olden Time

A County Site Removal Election

"Helping" Jim Grind Cane .

The Old Wash-hole .

With the Rites of the Order .

Cal Turner and the Black Runner

"Big Court" in the Olden Time

The Community Cotton Picking

Cutting a Bee Tree

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