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LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY

What the Children Saw and Heard there

BY

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AUTHOR OF "UNCLE REMUS," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY OLIVER HERFORD_

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[Illustration: MR. RABBIT FELL KERTHUMP. Page 41.]

A LITTLE NOTE TO A LITTLE BOOK.

The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some are Middle Georgia folklore stories, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions.

They were all written in the midst of daily work on a morning newspaper,--a fact that will account in some measure for their crude setting.

J. C. H. WEST END, ATLANTA, GA.

CONTENTS.

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