The Marrow of Tradition
by
Charles Chestnutt
1901
At Break of Day
The Christening Party
The Editor at Work
Theodore Felix
A Journey Southward
Janet
The Operation
The Campaign drags
A White Man's "Nigger"
Delamere Plays a Trump
The Baby and the Bird
Another Southern Product
The Cakewalk
The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
Ellis Takes a Trick
The Social Aspirations of Captain McBane
Sandy Sees His Own Ha'nt
A Midnight Walk
A Shocking Crime
The Necessity of an Example
How Not to Prevent a Lynching
Belleview
Two Southern Gentlemen
The Honor of a Family
The Discomfort of Ellis
The Vagaries of the Higher Law
In Season and Out
Mutterings of the Storm
The Missing Papers
The Shadow of a Dream
The Storm breaks
Into the Lion's Jaws
The Valley of the Shadow
"Mine Enemy, O Mine Enemy!"
Fiat Justitia
The Sisters
The Christening Party
The Editor at Work
Theodore Felix
A Journey Southward
Janet
The Operation
The Campaign drags
A White Man's "Nigger"
Delamere Plays a Trump
The Baby and the Bird
Another Southern Product
The Cakewalk
The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
Ellis Takes a Trick
The Social Aspirations of Captain McBane
Sandy Sees His Own Ha'nt
A Midnight Walk
A Shocking Crime
The Necessity of an Example
How Not to Prevent a Lynching
Belleview
Two Southern Gentlemen
The Honor of a Family
The Discomfort of Ellis
The Vagaries of the Higher Law
In Season and Out
Mutterings of the Storm
The Missing Papers
The Shadow of a Dream
The Storm breaks
Into the Lion's Jaws
The Valley of the Shadow
"Mine Enemy, O Mine Enemy!"
Fiat Justitia
The Sisters
The Marrow of Tradition
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
In whose capacious all-embracing leaves
The very marrow of tradition's shown.
—CHARLES LAMB To the Editor of the Every-Day Book
I like you and your book, ingenious Hone!
In whose capacious all-embracing leaves
The very marrow of tradition's shown.
—CHARLES LAMB To the Editor of the Every-Day Book
