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Ole Mars an' Ole Miss

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
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A series of rural sketches and vignettes captures life on Maryland's Eastern Shore through vernacular narration that blends humor, folklore, sermons, songs, debates, and doggerel. The pieces portray seasonal work, gardens, hunts, church meetings, and domestic scenes, offering varied portraits of community customs, beliefs, and speech. The book alternates short stories and comic pieces with reflective sermons and lyrical descriptions of landscape and household life, using archly rendered dialect to evoke characters and local color while shifting between playful anecdote and earnest moral reflection.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Ole Mars, Frontispiece
 
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Miss Sanson in the saddle, 8
 
Ef’n you don’ git of’n dat cow I’ll whup you tell dere ain’ no bref lef’ in you, 14
 
Tench Tilghman, 18
 
Anne Francis, 20
 
Miss Henrietta’s gift that hung over the pulpit, 28
 
Tench Francis, 32
 
Mars Pinckney when a boy, 48
 
Pawson Demby baptizing Tilly Mink just after cutting ice, 50
 
Mars Pinckney’s home, “Fausley,” 62
 
The picture on the face of the Moses clock, 78
 
Mars Torm fishing in Black Creek, 90
 
Rob Roy and Rose, 94
 
Yo’ gwine ter merry uh King an’ hab thutteen chillun, 106
 
Dem two gals, Marfy an’ Muhtilda, out da in de watah sorf crabbin’, is meh gran’chillun, 112
 
Deah gre’t gran’mammy gibs ’em too much cawn-bred, an’ hit natchelly puts noshuns in deah haids, 114
 
Ole Mars had de gre’tes’ confluence in meh ’rasity, 118
 
Scipio Jonas Jones and Nimrod, 120
 
So I bine meh haid up’n uh hankcheah an’ wen’ ter see Ole Mars’ boutin Saul, 128
 
Black Creek Falls, 136
 
Ole Mistis at sweet sixteen, 140
 
Ole Miss (Miss Henrietta), 152
 
Black Creek Ford, 170
 
Skylark, 172
 
Mars Matthew, 174
 
Ezra, 176
 
Miss Mary, 182
 
Mars Arthur, 184
 
Miss Sanson, 190
 
Mars Torm, 194
 
Ezra and the children, 196
 
Mammy, 212