INT IDYL'S LIGHT 111

"BLINK" 131

DUKE'S CHRISTMAS 165

UNCLE EPHE'S ADVICE TO BRER RABBIT 193

MAY BE SO 199

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'DIS HEAH'S A FUS-CLASS THING TER WORK OFF BAD
TEMPERS WID'" _Frontispiece_

"'SHE OUGHT TO EAT CANARY-SEED AND FISH-BONE'" _Facing p._ 46

THE ITALIAN ORGAN-GRINDER " 62

"THE PROFESSOR NOT ONLY SANG, BUT DANCED" " 64

"THE FARMER'S BOY WAS A HUNTER" " 68

"SIR SOOTY HIMSELF ACTUALLY WADDLED INTO THE FARM-YARD" " 74

"'I'M GOIN' TO SWAP 'EM'" " 76

"MADE HER PUT OUT HER TONGUE" " 78

"HER OWN TEN BEAUTIFUL DUCKS WERE CLOSE ABOUT HER" " 86

OLD EASTER " 92

"'YAS, MISSY, I WAS TWENTY-FO' HOND'ED YEARS OLE,
LAS' EASTER SUNDAY'" " 94

"'DE CATS? WHY, HONEY, DEY WELCOME TO COME AN' GO'" " 106

"'KEEP STEP, RABBIT, MAN!'" " 192

"'WELL, ONE MO' RABBIT FUR DE POT'" " 194

SOLOMON CROW'S CHRISTMAS POCKETS

SOLOMON CROW'S CHRISTMAS POCKETS

His mother named him Solomon because, when he was a baby, he looked so
wise; and then she called him Crow because he was so black. True, she
got angry when the boys caught it up, but then it was too late. They
knew more about crows than they did about Solomon, and the name suited.

His twin-brother, who died when he was a day old, his mother had called
Grundy--just because, as she said, "Solomon an' Grundy b'longs together
in de books."

When the wee black boy began to talk, he knew himself equally as Solomon
or Crow, and so, when asked his name, he would answer: "Sol'mon Crow,"
and Solomon Crow he thenceforth became.

Crow was ten years old now, and he was so very black and polished and
thin, and had so peaked and bright a face, that no one who had any
sense of humor could hear him called Crow without s