Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...and his friends the lizards. Each came with his burden of flies, and soon filled the boats. Their busy croaking awoke Zandilli, who found his task performed; and when the Queen and her followers came again, they cried, --"He has won The spear is his " Then Zandilli ascended the golden steps to take his wellearned prize. Impatiently he seized the golden spear, and jumping into the canoe, propelled it with the spear to the edge of the lake, where he bounded ashore. In a few hours he was back at the hut of the King and had claimed his bride, the beautiful black-eyed Lala, HOW BRER RABBIT MET BRER TAR-BABY nies to hear the tales and join in the fun. All of a sudden, the banjos and the fiddles, the singing and dancing would stop, everybody would squat down in a circle, and a little old mammy with a red bandana kerchief round her head would burst out in a high, shrill laugh, "Hi, yi, yi, yi " her teeth shining like ivory in the moonlight. Then she would roll her eyes around to see that all the little pickaninnies were still as mice and begin to tell a story. "'Twa'n't my time an' 'twa'n't you' time, but 'twas a berry good time dat all de beastises got togeder--Brer Fox an' Brer Wolf an' Brer Bear an' Brer 'Possum an' all de rest, an' dey say, 'We's gwine dig a well ' All but Brer Rabbit, an' he 'low he ain't gwine wuk to dig no well. So he play roun' 'bout in de bushes an' he play roun' an' he play roun' an' he play roun'. An' de udder beastises dey say to him, 'Brer Rabbit, if you don' dig no well, wot Way down south in the land o' cotton, when the moon hung in the sky like a great, big, round persimmon, and the mocking bird was singing in the trees, the negroes used to gather all together before their cabins, sing queer, sweet old melod...