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Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark

Chapter 1: DADDY JAKE THE RUNAWAY AND SHORT STORIES TOLD AFTER DARK
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A household narrative follows an elderly, trusted servant who departs after a violent clash with a newly imposed overseer, and the disruption his absence causes among the family and labor community. Interleaved with that central episode are framed folk tales recounted by an elder narrator in regional vernacular, many featuring trickster animals whose cleverness and misfortune produce moral and comic effects. The short pieces alternate animal fables and human anecdotes, sketching everyday rhythms, communal memory, and social tensions through folkloric motifs and colloquial storytelling. Overall, the collection blends a extended human drama with a sequence of brief, humourous parables about cunning, justice, and survival.

DADDY JAKE
THE RUNAWAY

JUDGE RABBIT AND THE FAT MAN.

DADDY JAKE
THE RUNAWAY
AND SHORT STORIES TOLD AFTER DARK

BY
“UNCLE REMUS”
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1898
Copyright, 1889, by
Joel Chandler Harris.
THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK.