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STARTING POINT. "Most of my dialect stories have some basis of fact in their incidents," says Mr. Gordon, "and in them I have sought to depict phases of the life and characteristics of the negroes whom I grew up among as a boy, and have known more or less intimately since.
"‘The Silent Infare' was a real occurrence, as was the pillow episode in ‘Mr. Bolster'; and the story of ‘Sinjinn Surviving,' in _Harper's Magazine_, is in its main features true. Nearly all, if not all, of the stories in the ‘Ommirandy' book had some foundation of fact, and the characters are amplified portraitures of ‘darkeys I have known."