E. K. Means 
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Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of
Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the
Writer of Negro Stories That This Second Book, Like the
First, Needs No Title
The stories in this volume were written simply because of my interest in the stories themselves and because of a whimsical fondness for the people of that Race to whom God has given two supreme gifts, —Music and Laughter.
For the benefit of the curious, I may say that many of the incidents in these tales are true and many of the characters and places mentioned actually exist.