Noblesse oblige -- My maussuh -- An antemortem demise -- The lion of Lewisburg -- The lion killer -- Old Barney -- Billybedam -- A short cut to justice -- Sam Dickerson -- Simon the "squerril" hunter -- The "cunjuh" that came back -- The raccoon hunter -- The turkey hunter -- The 'gator hunter -- The "wiles that in the women are" -- A ricefield idyll -- The Dower House -- At the cross roads store -- Mingo the drill master -- Old Harrison -- A marriage of convenience -- The plat-eye -- Old Pickett -- The lost buck -- Jim Moultrie's divorce -- Buh alligettuh en' buh deer -- Buh hawss en' buh mule (a fable) -- Liss "bin eensult" -- The retort courteous - The cat was crazy -- A congaree water-color -- Waiting till the bridegrooms come -- A Gullah's tale of woe -- The doctor didn't "exceed" -- The lady couldn't "specify" -- A question of privilege -- Conductor Smith's dilemma -- One was taken-the other left -- Egg-zactly -- An interrupted offertory -- A flaw in the "eenditement" -- Old wine-new bottles -- A glossary of the Gullah -- The Tar-baby story, as told by Col. C.C. Jones and Joel Chandler Harris