the use of their work. Especial acknowledgement is due to Mrs.
Booker T. Washington for the selection from _Up from Slavery_; to _The
Crisis_ for "The Rondeau," by Jessie Fauset, "The Brave Son," by Alston
W. Burleigh, "The Black Fairy," by Fenton Johnson, "The Children at
Easter," by C. Emily Frazier, "His Motto," by Lottie B. Dixon, "Negro
Soldiers," by Roscoe C. Jamison, "A Legend of the Blue Jay," by Ruth
Anna Fisher; to the American Book Company for "The Dog and the Clever
Rabbit," from _Animal Tales_, by A. O. Stafford; to Frederick A. Stokes
and Company for "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," by Matthew A.
Henson; to A. C. McClurg and Company for the selection from _Souls of
Black Folk_, by W. E. B. DuBois; to Henry Holt and Company for the
selection from _The Negro_, by W. E. B. DuBois; to the Cornhill Company
for the selections from The _Band of Gideon_, by Joseph F. Cotter, Jr.,
and _The Menace of the South_, by William J. Edwards; to Dodd, Mead and
Company for "Ere Sleep Comes Down" and the "Boy and the Bayonet"
(copyright 1907), by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

CONTENTS

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THE BOY AND THE BAYONET _Paul Laurence Dunbar_ 1
BEGINNINGS OF A MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL _William H. Holtzclaw_ 13
UP FROM SLAVERY _Booker T. Washington_ 15
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON _William H. Holtzclaw_ 20
ANNA-MARGARET _Augusta Bird_ 22
CHARITY _H. Cordelia Ray_ 28
MY FIRST SCHOOL _W. E. B. DuBois_ 29
ERE SLEEP COMES DOWN _Paul Laurence Dunbar_ 38
THE LAND OF LAUGHTER _Angelina W. Grimke_ 40
THE WEB OF CIRCUMSTANCE _Charles W. Chesnutt_ 47
IS THE GAME WORTH THE CANDLE? _James E. Shepard_ 48
O BLACK AND UNKNOWN BARDS _James Weldon Johnson_ 54
THE GREATEST MENACE OF THE SOUTH _William J. Edwards_ 56
THE ENCHANTED SHELL _H. Cordelia Ray_ 63
BEHIND A GEORGIA MULE _James Weldon Johnson_ 66
HAYTI AND TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE _W. E. B. DuBois_ 72
HIS MOTTO _Lottie Burrell Dixon_ 77
THE MONTHS _H.