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200 14$aThe Marengo Jake stories$b[electronic resource] $ethe tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton /$fJake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton
210   $aTuscaloosa, AL $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (257 p.)
300   $aPreviously published under title: De remnant truth, 1991.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aContents; Introduction; A Note on the Texts; The "Marengo Jake" Stories; M'renger; M'reener: How Uncle Jake Interviewed a "High-Drawin'" Ram; Marengo Mud: Old Jake's Story of the Bottomless Slough; Three Little Boys and Three Little Fishes; Marengo Jake Plays Another Trick on the Three Boys; Seismic Phenomena-Explained by a Marengo Scientist; Christmas in Marengo; Jake and Miss Emmer; Tripping Jake; The Marengo Prestidigitator; Marengo Jake: A Romance of Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds; Jake Cornered; A True Story: How Marengo Jake Elected Cleveland
327   $aMarengo Jake: He Tells About a Famous "Dry Drought"Marengo Jake: An Incident of the Wet Drouth in M'ringer; A Marengo Runaway; Dick and the Devil; A M'ringer Rat Story; Old Time Christmas; A Pig Tale; An Ass in a Lion's Skin; Birmingham Dirt; Looking Backward; A Mule as Was a Mule; An Eating Match; Jake's New House; A Legend: How Clarke Played It on Marengo; Underground Farming; Jake's Senses; Jake Heard From; A Lesson in Natural History; Miss Mary;  or, The Value of Education; A Model School; Mosquitoes of Marengo; Lightning; An Abridged Narrative
330   $a Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama.  According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character called ""Marengo Jake.""  Probably originally from Virginia, Jake Mitchell was brought to the Drake Plantation in Marengo county as a boy in the 1850's.  After the Civil War, th
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