| Contents |
Mr. Nigger -- Spring -- Hardihood -- A protest -- Preacherly preference -- Springtime -- One sided -- 'T ain't long -- Bluffers -- Nigger demus -- Wishing -- The catfish -- Folk song -- Three hypotheses -- A modest ploughman -- The August meeting -- Salutation -- Po' baby -- 'Ligion -- A few days off -- Noontime -- Diseases -- A tar heel -- Every man's way -- A summer resort -- The trickster tricked -- Be shame -- A dream of you -- Environment -- 'Possum time again -- Noah's ark -- A monologue -- De three frosties -- Punishment -- Obedience -- Weather signals -- Utopia -- The raccoon -- The crow's shadow -- In a canoe -- Naming the animals -- The red shirts -- Poor old Ben -- For corn shuckings -- One day -- A hindrance -- A pallet sleeper -- Substitute -- Bedtime -- The persimmon tree -- "Believing where we cannot prove" -- Convenient theology -- Baby's noggin -- Black molasses -- Old aunt pleasant -- The crown of power -- The rejected Scotsman -- A soft snap -- Ambition -- The siesta -- The diediper -- Snakes -- Mysteries -- Baby's legs -- Grass -- The Varmint convention -- The Coon from the College town -- If -- Tot and Ted -- Boy's visions -- Holding off the calf -- When the calves get out -- Cats -- To Alfonso XIV -- A Tomtit messenger -- To one who is good -- Dew -- Race suicide -- The first flower -- Dead -- Viewpoints -- Old Jim Swink -- The doodle bug -- Autumn -- The three tots -- At the dance -- Selfishness -- Deserted -- Grandaddy-Long-Legs -- The castle builder -- To-Morrow -- A choice -- The iron door -- The tenant -- Horsemint -- In the woods -- To sleep. |
| Abstract |
This collection of poems from turn of the century North Carolina are written in local dialectic, and describes the post-bellum Southern perspective, particularly focusing on the African American experience as seen by a white author. |
| General note | Partly reprinted from the Charlotte Observer and the Century magazine. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner NC Rare copy 30372017023356 Purchased from Joseph Natale 10/2015 |
| LCCN | 08005888 |
