Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches, by Joel Chandler Harris This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches Author: Joel Chandler Harris Release Date: February 2, 2010 [EBook #31160] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FREE JOE *** Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of public domain material produced by Microsoft for their Live Search Books site.) "Den I tell him 'bout de man down dar in de gully" —Free Joe FREE JOE AND OTHER GEORGIAN SKETCHES BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AUTHOR OF "UNCLE REMUS," ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK Copyright 1887 by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Free Joe [1]CONTENTS PAGE Free Joe 3 Little Compton 30 Aunt Fountain's Prisoner 98 Trouble on Lost Mountain 133 Azalia 183 [3]FREE JOE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD The name of Free Joe strikes humorously upon the ear of memory. It is impossible to say why, for he was the humblest, the simplest, and the most serious of all God's living creatures, sadly lacking in all those elements that suggest the humorous.