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THE BISHOP AND THE BOOGERMAN

Being the Story of a Little Truly-Girl, Who Grew Up; Her Mysterious
Companion; Her Crabbed Old Uncle; the Whish-Whish Woods; a Very Civil
Engineer, and Mr. Billy Sanders the Sage of Shady Dale

by

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

Drawings by Charlotte Harding







New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1909

All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1907, by Sunny South Publishing Co.

Copyright, 1909, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, January, 1909




[Illustration: "They paused--then she pointed to the darkest corner"]




ILLUSTRATIONS


"They paused--then she pointed to the darkest corner"

"It seemed to Adelaide that it held a whole bushel of fried chicken and
biscuits"

"The child stared at her uncle so seriously that he was actually
embarrassed"

"Old Jonas would listen by her bedside to convince himself that she was
really breathing"

"They began