RODMAN THE KEEPERSOUTHERN SKETCHES

CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON AUTHOR OF "EAST ANGELS" "ANNE" "FOR THE MAJOR" ETC.

NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

 DEDICATED T O T H E M E M O R Y O F MY MOTHER. 

PREFACE.

THE sketches included in this volume were written during a residence in the South, which has embraced the greater part of the past six years. As far as they go they record real impressions; but they can never give the inward charm of that beautiful land which the writer has learned to love, and from which she now severs herself with true regret. Two of these sketches have appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly," four in "Appletons' Journal," and one each in "Scribner's Monthly," "The Galaxy," "Lippincott's Monthly," and "Harper's Magazine."

C. F. W.

CONTENTS.

Rodman the Keeper

Sister St. Luke

Miss Elisabetha

Old Gardiston

The South Devil

In the Cotton Country

Felipa

"Bro."

King David

Up in the Blue Ridge

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