Category: Short Stories
The following stories first appeared in St. Nicholas, The Youth’s Companion, Pearson’s Magazine, and The Brown Book. To the editors of these periodicals the author’s thanks are due for permission to republish the tales.
Every one saw the reasonableness of the assertion, and Marty was thereupon adopted as the official mascot and general factotum of the Summerville Baseball Club. Since then none...
10. Part 10Ned had been the only member of the freshman nine taken on the varsity that spring. At first this had bothered him; there were two or three others--notably Barrett, the freshman...
9. Part 9A great deal of this passed through Tom’s mind as he descended the path and reached the shelter of the low-spreading alders that marked the course of the brook. But, with the so...
7. Part 7“I’m very sorry, dad,” replied the Hero, earnestly. “If I’d known you were coming to-day I could have fixed things a little differently. But as it was, I couldn’t very well give...
5. Part 5“Surely. You’ve been so mistaken when you have credited all kinds of unpleasant sentiments to people. They can’t care any the less for you because your back is not as straight a...
6. Part 6“I see. And I owe you an apology. I didn’t think you’d let me on, and I said so. I think it was a mighty plucky thing to do, mighty plucky, Syddington, and--and awfully decent....
4. Part 4Marty, watching breathless and wide-eyed from the field, threw a handspring and uttered a whoop of joy. The nines changed places, and the last half of the last inning began with...
2. Part 2Brattle met him, and, laying an arm over his shoulder, walked him a few paces apart. Jimpson’s heart, which had become more normal in action, threatened another invasion of his...
8. Part 8Satterlee 2d’s troubled questioning elicited only sleepy and very unsatisfactory answers, and he had laid awake, hour after hour, or so it seemed, with ears strained for suspici...
1. Part 1The following stories first appeared in St. Nicholas, The Youth’s Companion, Pearson’s Magazine, and The Brown Book. To the editors of these periodicals the author’s thanks are...
11. Part 11The visitor was a stranger; a tall, raw-boned youth of about seventeen, with a homely, freckled face surmounted by a good deal of tousled, hemp-colored hair. His eyes were ridic...
12. Part 12A Story for Girls and Boys. By KATHARINE N. BIRDSALL. Illustrated in two colors by Walter Russell, with many text cuts. 12mo. Cloth, $1.20 net; postage, 12 cents additional.