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"Den I tell him 'bout de man down dar in de gully""Den I tell him 'bout de man down dar in de gully"
—Free Joe
FREE JOE
AND
OTHER GEORGIAN SKETCHES
BY
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
AUTHOR OF "UNCLE REMUS," ETC., ETC.



ILLUSTRATED



P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK
Copyright 1887 by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Free Joe
[1]
CONTENTS
 PAGE
Free Joe3
Little Compton30
Aunt Fountain's Prisoner        98
Trouble on Lost Mountain133
Azalia183
[3]
FREE JOE AND THE REST
OF THE WORLD
The name of Free Joe strikes humorouslyupon the ear of memory. It is impossible tosay why, for he was the humblest, the simplest,and the most serious of all God's living creatures,sadly lacking in all those elements thatsuggest the humorous. It is certain, moreover,that in 1850 the sober-minded citizens of thelittle Georgian village of Hillsborough were notinclined to take a humorous view of Free Joe,and neither his name nor his presence provokeda smile. He was a black atom, drifting hitherand thither without an owner, blown about byall the winds of circumstance, and given over toshiftlessness.
The problems of one generation are the paradoxesof a succeeding one, particularly if war,or some such incident, intervenes to clarify the[4]atmosphere and strengthen the understanding.Thus, in 1850, Free Joe represented not only aproblem of large concern, but, in the watchfuleyes of Hillsborough, he was the embodimentof that vague and mysterious danger that seemedto be forever lurking on the outskirts of slavery,ready to sound a shrill and ghostly signal in theimpenetrable swamps, and steal forth under themidnight stars to murder, rapine, and pillage—adanger always threatening, and yet never assumingshape; intangible,                        
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