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قراءة كتاب Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
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Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER
AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY
What the Children Saw and Heard there
BY
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
AUTHOR OF “UNCLE REMUS,” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY OLIVER HERFORD
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1895
Copyright, 1894,
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AND
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company
Books by Joel Chandler Harris.
NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50; paper, 50 cents.
MINGO, AND OTHER SKETCHES IN BLACK AND WHITE. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents.
BALAAM AND HIS MASTER, AND OTHER SKETCHES. 16mo, $1.25.
UNCLE REMUS AND HIS FRIENDS. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50.
LITTLE MR. THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $2.00
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
A LITTLE NOTE TO A LITTLE BOOK.
The stories that follow belong to three categories. Some of them were gathered from the negroes, but were not embodied in the tales of Uncle Remus, because I was not sure they were negro stories; some are Middle Georgia folklore stories, and no doubt belong to England; and some are merely inventions.
They were all written in the midst of daily work on a morning newspaper,—a fact that will account in some measure for their crude setting.
J. C. H.
West End, Atlanta, Ga.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Grandmother of the Dolls | 5 |
| II. | Mr. Thimblefinger’s Queer Country | 17 |
| III. | Mr. Thimblefinger’s Friends | 33 |
| IV. | Two Queer Stories | 47 |
| V. | The Talking-Saddle | 61 |
| VI. | The Talking-Saddle and the Thief | 73 |
| VII. | The Ladder of Lions | 86 |
| VIII. | Brother Terrapin’s Fiddle-String | 101 |
| IX. | The Looking-Glass Children | 110 |
| X. | Mr. Rabbit as a Rain-Maker | 121 |
| XI. | How Brother Bear’s Hair was combed | 131 |
| XII. | A Singing-Match | 139 |
| XIII. | The Strawberry-Girl | 147 |
| XIV. | The Witch of the Well | 155 |
| XV. | The Bewitched Huntsman | 165 |
| XVI. | The Three Ivory Bobbins | 175 |
| XVII. | “Keen-Point,” “Cob-Handle,” and “Butch” | 185 |
| XVIII. | Mrs. Meadows resumes her Story | 195 |
| XIX. | A Story of the River | 215 |