TALES -- The wonderful tar-baby -- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox -- De wolf, de rabbit, and de tar baby -- Eyeball candy -- Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear -- Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the game -- Granny's version of the owl -- Sheer crops -- Buh owl an buh rooster -- Buh lion an buh goat -- Story of a cow -- Buh hawss en' buh bule -- Why the Negro is black -- Why the Negro is black (Uncle Remus' version) -- Why the Holy Amen Church has two doors -- Why the rabbit has a short tail -- Why the buzzard has a red head -- Granny's version of the eagle who became a girl -- How the church came to be split up -- Why there are so many mosquitoes on the East Coast -- John and his boss-man's watermelon patch -- John and the two white men in court -- Ole Pete -- The green runner -- The sweetheart of Harriet Tubman's brother -- King Charley of Albany -- Peg Leg and the Tulsa race riot -- Nancy Vaughn -- Jim Beckwourth, frontiersman -- Memories of lead belly -- Little Black Sambo from Guinea -- Treasure hunting story -- The sprinkle man -- A ghost voodoo story -- A fish story from Farmville, Virginia -- Uncle Henry and the dog ghost -- The Saturday night fiddler -- The half-clad ghost -- The deserted village -- Two ghost stories from the same section of Virginia -- A Negro ghost story -- Little Nero and the magic tea cakes -- The red toro of Hidalgo County -- Ropes cost money -- The "George West" steer -- The Palacios rancher and the preacher -- Aunt Dicy and the mailman -- Aunt Dicy and the snuff salesman -- According to where the drop falls -- Aunt Dicy and Booker T. Washington's speech -- Twelve days after Christmas -- The talking mule -- Why the Jews don't eat hog -- The white quail -- The Detroit race riot -- Pony Moore's story -- The coon in the box -- The big watermelon -- Brand-name stories -- Jack and Dinah -- Uncle Si, his boss-man, and Hell -- Uncle Aaron loses his home -- Uncle Aaron goes fishing -- Uncle Aaron orders a baking pan -- The woman hurricane -- Who's ready for who? -- A laugh that meant freedom -- The cotton-pickin' monkeys -- The Oklahoma freedman -- They went riding snow-white horses -- A queer conception of beauty -- Paid for in privilege -- Too many "ups" -- Little Julia and her grandmother's cat -- The Negro taxi driver's trial -- A yellow bastard -- Tim and Bill from Summerville -- How Uncle Steve interpreted Spanish -- Elvannah's leave-taking -- Gib Morgan's fight -- John Green Peas --
Brother Brown's announcement
Witness of the Johnstown flood in Heaven
Sister Rosie and the African missionary
Brother Gregg identifies himself
Why so many Negroes are in Heaven
Sister Sadie Washington's littlest boy
The preacher and his farmer brother
A Negro's version of Heaven and Hell
Prayers (The white man's prayer ; The Negro's prayer ; Prayer)
"I can't forgive her, the way she used to beat us"
If all slaves had belonged to white folks like ours
Out of the mouths of ex-slaves
Kicked around like a mule
"Master got good when war come up"
Mulatto whom owners treated like a family member
Harriet Parker on slavery
Dorie Boyd on freedom and Reconstruction
Reconstruction was a mighty hard pull
Little but "way out in front"
The Reverend Matthew N. McRae on "the closest I evuh come to bein' robbed"
He wanted to ask a question
Experiences of a chimney sweeper
New Orleans' first "baby doll"
A wife longs for the town
A farm wife tells of her children
A Negro cowboy: J. H. Brewer
Jim Finn on calling up the Devil
Gambling superstitions, among others
Popular beliefs and superstitions
Weather lore (Cold weather signs ; Warm weather signs ; Fair weather signs ; Stormy weather signs)
Superstitions about animals
Folk beliefs from Florida
Beliefs from Georgia (The lady in black ; A witch story ; Flying people)
CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND PASTIMES.