E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) BYPATHS IN DIXIE “DES LIKE SHE RUB’IN ON YORN.” BYPATHS IN DIXIE BYPATHS IN DIXIE FOLK TALES OF THE SOUTH FOLK TALES OF THE SOUTH BY SARAH JOHNSON COCKE SARAH JOHNSON COCKE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS HARRY STILLWELL EDWARDS NEW YORK E·P·DUTTON & COMPANY 31 West Twenty-Third Street Copyright, 1911 By E. P. Dutton & Company Reprinted, May, 1912 E. P. Dutton & Company TO MY HUSBAND [Pg 7] [Pg 7] INTRODUCTION When Thomas Nelson Page began his stories of the old South in the early “Eighties,” the reading people of America suddenly aroused to the realization that a vein of virgin gold had been uncovered. There was a rush to the new field and almost every Southerner who had a story to tell told it, many of them with astonishing dramatic force and power. As by magic a new department was added to American literature and a score of new writers won their way to fame. From a notably backward section, in point of[Pg 8] expression, the
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