The Marrow of Tradition
by Charles W. Chesnutt
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Contents
- I. At Break of Day
- II. The Christening Party
- III. The Editor at Work
- IV. Theodore Felix
- V. A Journey Southward
- VI. Janet
- VII. The Operation
- VIII. The Campaign Drags
- IX. A White Man's "Nigger"
- X. Delamere Plays a Trump
- XI. The Baby and the Bird
- XII. Another Southern Product
- XIII. The Cakewalk
- XIV. The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
- XV. Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
- XVI. Ellis Takes a Trick
- XVII
- XVIII. Sandy Sees His Own Ha'nt
- XIX. A Midnight Walk
- XX. A Shocking Crime
- XXI. The Necessity of an Example
- XXII. How Not to Prevent a Lynching
- XXIII. Belleview
- XXIV. Two Southern Gentlemen
- XXV. The Honor of a Family
- XXVI. The Discomfort of Ellis
- XXVII. The Vagaries of the Higher Law
- XXVIII. In Season and Out
- XXIX. Mutterings of the Storm
- XXX. The Missing Papers
- XXXI. The Shadow of a Dream
- XXXII. The Storm Breaks
- XXXIII. Into the Lion's Jaws
- XXXIV. The Valley of the Shadow
- XXXV. "Mine Enemy, O Mine Enemy!"
- XXXVI. Fiat Justitia
- XXXVII. The Sisters