ON THE PLANTATION
A Story Of A Georgia Boy’s Adventures During The War
By Joel Chandler Harris
Author Of Uncle Remus
With Twenty-Three Illustrations By E. W. Kemble
New York
D. Appleton And Company
1892
TO
JOSEPH ADDISON TURNER
LAWYER, EDITOR, SCHOLAR, PLANTER,
AND PHILANTHROPIST THIS MIXTURE
OF FACT AND FICTION IS INSCRIBED
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—JOE MAXWELL MAKES A START
CHAPTER II—A PLANTATION NEWSPAPER
CHAPTER III—TRACKING A RUNAWAY
CHAPTER VI—THE OWL AND THE BIRDS
CHAPTER VIII—SOMETHING ABOUT “SANDY-CLAUS”
CHAPTER IX—DESERTERS AND RUNAWAYS
CHAPTER XI—THE RELIEF COMMITTEE
CHAPTER XII—A GEORGIA FOX-HUNT
CHAPTER XIII—A NIGHT’S ADVENTURES
CHAPTER I—JOE MAXWELL MAKES A START
The post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an enterprising gentleman from Connecticut, had arranged matters so that those who went after their letters and papers could at the same time get their grocery supplies.
Over against the wall on one side was a faded green sofa. It was not an inviting seat, for in some places the springs peeped through, and one of its legs was b