PART I

“Bay Billy” _Frank H. Gassaway_ 98 Because _Boston Transcript_ 33 The Book Canvasser 78 Casabianca (Colored) 43 A Centre-board Yacht-race _George A. Stockwell_ 67 The Christening _E. T. Corbett_ 37 The Coming Wave _Oliver Optic_ 82 Counting Eggs _Texas Siftings_ 64 Cut, Cut Behind _Charles Follen Adams_ 45 The Deacon’s Ride _Mary C. Huntington_ 59 The Death of D’Assas _Mary E. Vandyne_ 24 Decoration Day _Mary Bassett Hussey_ 54 The Driver of Ninety-three _Sarah K. Bolton_ 8 The Engineer’s Story _Eugene J. Hall_ 81 The Fall _Thomas Hood_ 66 Filling His Place _Maria L. Eve_ 40 The Flag _James Jeffrey Roche_ 32 The Heritage _James Russell Lowell_ 42 Hiring Help _Mrs. S. E. Dawes_ 102 The House in the Meadow _Louise Chandler Moulton_ 15 How the Ransom was Paid _W. R. Rose_ 10 Jem’s Last Ride _Mary A. P. Stansbury_ 88 The Labor Question _Wendell Phillips_ 29 The Light from Over the Range 5 A Little Peach 17 A Lost Child _Anna F. Burnham_ 86 Love and Philosophy _Geo. Runde Jackson_ 30 Malaria 74 Mary’s Lamb on a New Principle 44 The Man with the Musket _H. S. Taylor_ 27 Metamora to the Council 9 Missing 53 The Mississippi Miracle _Irwin Russell_ 70 Mr. Pickwick’s Romantic Adventure with a Middle-aged Lady in Yellow Curl-Papers _Dickens_ 18 Over the Crossin’ _Springfield Republican_ 92 Puzzled 76 The Rajah’s Clock _Theron Brown_ 57 Re-enlisted _Lucy Larcom_ 11 Scene from “Ion” _Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd_ 46 She Stood on the Stair _Puck_ 13 The Silver Bell _Mrs. Julia D. Pratt_ 63 Somehow or Other 94 The Story of Sir Arnulph _Gerald Massey_ 85 Taters _W. O. Eaton_ 96 Together on the Stairs _Andrew G. Tubbs_ 35 A Tough Customer _William L. Keese_ 28 “An Unknown Man, Respectably Dressed” _Helen Jackson_ 97 The Village Choir _Audre’s Journal_ 39 Wendell Phillips _John Boyle O’Reilly_ 72 When Greek met Greek 56 When McGue puts the Baby to Sleep 87