l Folk
literature and finally of all literature. The Negro being the last to
come to the bright light of civilization has given or probably will give
the last crop of Folk Rhymes. Human processes being largely the same, I
hope that my little personal knowledge of the Negro Rhymes may help
others in the other larger literary fields.

I am hoping that it may help and I am penning the last strokes to record
my sincere desire that it may in no way hinder.

GENERAL INDEX

PART I

PAGE

A. B. C., 154

Alabama Way, The, 164

Anchor Line, 87

Animal Attire, 158

Animal Fair, 159

Animal Persecutors, 205

Antebellum Courtship Inquiry, 135

Antebellum Marriage Proposal, 137

Are You Careful, 203

Ark, The, 44

As I Went to Shiloh, 13

Aspiration, 159

Aunt Dinah Drunk, 53

Aunt Jemima, 107

Awful Harbingers, 149

Baa! Baa! Black Sheep, 27

Baby Wants Cherries, 181

Bad Features, 100

Banjo Picking, The, 21

Bat! Bat! 202

Bedbug, 96

Bitter Lovers' Quarrel, A, 127

Black-eyed Peas For Luck, 200

Blessings, 204

Blindfold Play Chant, 73

Bob-White's Song, 155

Bought Me a Wife, 145

Brag and Boast, 213

Bridle up a Rat, 157

Bring on your Hot Corn, 29

Brother Ben and Sister Sal, 46

Buck and Berry, 172

Buck-eyed Rabb