Contents • xi

2127	Mike Fink Trying to Scare Mrs. Crockett

2128	Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns

2128	The Death of Mike Fink (Joseph M. Field, recorder)

2132 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870) 2132 The Horse Swap

2136 George Washington Harris (1814-1869) 2136 Mrs. Yardley's Quilting

2143 Washington Irving (1783-1859) 2145 from A History of New York

2145	Book I, Chapter 5

2153 Rip Van Winkle

2165 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

2185 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

2187 from The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale

2188	Chapter XXI

2195	Chapter XXII

2200	Chapter XXIII

2207 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) 2209 from Hope Leslie

2209	from Volume 1, Chapter 7

2214	from Volume 2, Chapter 1

2219	from Volume 2, Chapter 8

2221 Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864) 2223 from A New Home-Who'll Follow?

2223

Preface

2224	Preface to the Fourth Edition

2224

Chapter I

2228	Chapter XV

2231	Chapter XVII

2232	Chapter XXVII

2240	Chapter XLIII

2242 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 2245 My Kinsman, Major Molineux

2258 Young Goodman Brown

2267 The Minister's Black Veil

2276 The Birth-mark

2287 Rappaccini's Daughter 2307 The Scarlet Letter

2444 Preface to The House of Seven Gahtes