Name: Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
ISBN: 978-0836941043

Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark

By Joel Chandler Harris 30 Oct, 2020

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One fine day in September, in the year 1863, there was quite an uproar on the Gaston plantation, in Putnam County, in the State of Georgia. Uncle Jake, the carriage-driver, was missing. He was more than fifty years old, and it was the first time he had been missing since his mistress had been big enough to call him. But he was missing now. Here was his mistress waiting to order the carriage; here was his master fretting and fuming; and here were the two little children, Lucien and Lillian, crying because they didn’t know where Uncle Jake was—“Daddy Jake,” who had heretofore seemed always to be within sound of their voices, ready and anxious to amuse them in any and every way. Less

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