Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Charles C., Jr. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Language:English
Published: Boston : Cambridge : Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. ; The Riverside Press, 1888.
Subjects:
African Americans > Georgia > Folklore.
Animals > Folklore.
African Americans.
Animals.
Georgia.
Folklore.
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:x, 171 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • How come buh alligatur nebber sleep fur from de ribbber bank
  • Buh tukrey buzzud and de rain
  • How buh cooter fool buh deer
  • Buh wolf, buh rabbit, and de tar bady
  • Buh fowl-hawk an buy rooster
  • Buh tukrey buzzud an de king crab
  • De king, eh darter, buh wolf, and buh rabbit
  • Buh pattridge and buh rabbit
  • De ole man an de gallinipper
  • Buh sparruh
  • Buh alligatur an buh mash-hen
  • Buh fowl-hawk an Buh tukrey buzzud
  • Buh wolf an buh rabbit
  • Buh wolf an de two dinner
  • Ruh owl an buh rooster
  • Buh lion an buh goat
  • Buh bear an buh tiger
  • Buh monkey an de bull-dog
  • Buh elephant and buh rooster
  • De po man an de snake
  • Leely gal, buh alligatur, an de jay-bud
  • De cat, de rat, de cheese, and de fox
  • Buh rabbit and de tarruh beastises
  • Buh wolf, buh rabbit, and de butter
  • De eagle and eh chillun
  • Chanticleer an de ban-yad rooster
  • Buh rabbit an de groun-mole
  • Buh rabbit and de rock-soup
  • De two fren and de bear
  • De ole man and det
  • De king an eh ring
  • Buh lion, buh rabbit, buh fox, and buh roccoon
  • Buh rabbit, buh wolf, an de porpus
  • De debble an may belle
  • De ole man an de coon
  • Buh rabbit and de crawfish
  • Buh rabbit an buh elephunt
  • Buh rabbit, buh wolf, an buh possum
  • Buh rabbit, buh wolf, and de holler tree
  • Buh rabbit an de cunjur man
  • Buh rabbit, buh fox, and de fisherman
  • Buh rabbit, buh wolf, de dog, an de goose
  • Buh squirle an buh fox
  • Buh rabbit, buh wolf, an de buckra man
  • Buh rabbit an buh wolf funeral
  • De new nigger an eh mossa
  • Buh rabbit an de king darter
  • De single ball
  • Buh roccoon an buh possum
  • Buh wolf, buh rabbit, an de rain
  • Buh alligatuh, buh rabbit and buh wolf
  • De dyin bull-frog
  • Buh rabbit, buh pattridge, and de cow
  • De fiddler, buh tiger, an buh dear
  • De ole king an de noung king
  • Buh goat an buh wolf
  • Dentistry at the old plantation home
  • The negro and the alligator
  • Sperits
  • Daddy jupiter's vision.