Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
BLACK BORDER

GULLAH STORIES OF
THE CAROLINA COAST

(With a Glossary)

BY

AMBROSE E. GONZALES

COLUMBIA, S. C.
THE STATE COMPANY
1922

COPYRIGHT 1922
THE STATE COMPANY

TO

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

CONTENTS

Page

Foreword 7

GULLAH STORIES

Noblesse Oblige 19

My Maussuh 24

An Antemortem Demise 29

The Lion of Lewisburg 35

The Lion Killer 45

Old Barney 53

Billybedam 58

A Short Cut to Justice 64

Sam Dickerson 72

Simon the “Squerril” Hunter 82

The “Cunjuh” That Came Back 87

The Raccoon Hunter 96

The Turkey Hunter 107

The ’Gator Hunter 116

The “Wiles That in the Women Are” 128

A Ricefield Idyll 134

The Dower House 142

At the Cross Roads Store 150

Mingo the Drill Master 158

Old Harrison 166

A Marriage of Convenience 174

The Plat-Eye 183

Old Pickett 190

The Lost Buck 202

Jim Moultrie’s Divorce 212

Buh Alligettuh en’ Buh Deer 216

Buh Hawss en’ Buh Mule (a Fable) 219

Liss “Bin Eensult” 221

The Retort Courteous 223

The Cat Was Crazy 225

A Congaree Water-Color 230

Waiting Till the Bridegrooms Come 233

A Gullah’s Tale of Woe 238

The Doctor Didn’t “Exceed” 242

The Lady Couldn’t “Specify” 246

A Question of Privilege 249

Conductor Smith’s Dilemma 252

One Was Taken--the Other Left 256

Egg-zactly 259

An Interrupted Offertory 262

A Flaw in the “Eenditement” 267

Old Wine--New Bottles 271

A Glossary of the Gullah 277

The Tar-Baby Story, as Told by Col. C. C.
Jones and Joel Chandler Harris 343