<h2><SPAN name="CHAPTER_XXIV" id="CHAPTER_XXIV"></SPAN><SPAN href="#CONTENTS">CHAPTER XXIV.</SPAN><br/> <span class="small">A FRIEND IN NEED.</span></h2>
<p>It was 'Tilda Jane, breathing like a race-horse.</p>
<p>"What's up with you, sissy?" he asked.</p>
<p>She could not speak for a few seconds, then she
gasped with difficulty, "Hank, dear old Hank, he's
in there—the loveliest man—he's always ready to
do a turn for any one—go in—tell him your business.
I've said a little, mind what he tells you, an'
you'll get on. He's helped lots of people. He was
in the midst of a dinner party. He's so good—he
jus' left it an' come. Go—" and she gave him a
gentle push and sent him into the parlour, where he
blinked his eyes alternately at the lamp on the table,
and at a small, dark, quiet man who sat with his hat
on his knee.</p>
<p>The small man was breathing hard, as if he, too,
had been walking fast, but on seeing Hank, he rose
and stood with outstretched hand.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"My name is Tracy," he said, kindly, "and I
have come to this town since you left it, but I
know your family."</p>
<p>"I know you, too," said Hank, bluntly, "from
her letters," and he jerked his head backward, but
'Tilda Jane, after softly closing the door, had
disappeared.</p>
<p>Mr. Tracy sat down again, and Hank sat opposite
him. A slight and awkward pause ensued, broken
speedily, however, by the minister.</p>
<p>"Young man, you are in trouble."</p>
<p>"Yes, I am that," said Hank, gruffly.</p>
<p>"State your trouble," said the minister, kindly.</p>
<p>Hank hesitated an instant, then his words came
with a rush. "You've visited creameries, sir?"</p>
<p>"I have."</p>
<p>"Well, there's good creameries and bad creameries.
A few years ago, when I was casting about
in my mind for something to do, I got in with a
Chicago firm known as the White Elephant firm—owing
to so many States being spotted with their
buildings, loaded on the farmers, and costing too
much to keep up. Being a Maine man, they sent<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[277]</SPAN></span>
me to my own State. I was one of their most go-ahead
sharks, now they've fired me to fix themselves
right with the farmers. Do you know how they
take in a community, sir?"</p>
<p>"No, I don't."</p>
<p>"Well, s'pose you're a shark. You navigate
round among the farmers, and make a smother of
big talk about hauling in buckets full of money.
You get a committee to visit some creamery where
the outfit is salted to make an extra showing. You
pay the farmers' expenses, you offer 'em a block of
stock, and up goes the creamery in their district
with machinery from the promoting company,
costing two or three times over what everything
is worth. When the whole thing's up, it'll usually
dawn on the minds of your stockholders that
a creamery ain't much without cows, and their
cows ain't got enough milk to pay for the fuel
they burn. 'Way back here fifty miles, I had
whipped up a creamery; I had a man to run the
machinery, but he was a simpleton. He ruined
the separator, it had to be sent back to the shop,
an' I got mad with him.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"Then he blabbed, told everything he knew, an' a
lot he didn't, an' the farmers stopped counting their
cows long enough to listen. Hasty words flew
round, about fraudulent subscriptions, vitiated transactions,
no contracts, ruined farms, going to law—an'
I thought it was time to skip. The firm had
made me stop there up to this, an' as soon as I
ran, they bounced me—I'm all played out here,
sir. My native State bids me farewell!"</p>
<p>Hank suddenly ceased speaking, his head dropped
on his breast, yet before it did so, he shot one appealing,
hopeful glance at his listener. Despite
his "don't-care" tone, and off-hand manner, it was
plainly to be seen that he felt himself in trouble, and
knew that there was one at hand who would help
him.</p>
<p>"You've been in a poor business," observed Mr.
Tracy, quietly. "You want to quit it?"</p>
<p>"Yes, sir," said Hank, meekly.</p>
<p>"Listen then—" and his companion in his turn
began to speak rapidly.</p>
<p>'Tilda Jane, flying about the house, sent many an
anxious thought to the closed parlour. What was<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[279]</SPAN></span>
the minister saying to Hank? Would Hank talk
to him freely?</p>
<p>"O Lord! Lord! Lord!" she cried, suddenly
stopping and raising her clasped hands to the ceiling,
"do make his heart soft—soft as mush, an'
don't let him be sassy. The minister is smooth an'
nice, an' he would stand sass, but it's awful bad for
Hank. He's got to sober down. O Lord, make
him solemn—jus' like an owl!"</p>
<p>She dashed a tear from the corner of her eye, and
went on with her occupation of wrapping various
articles in a red handkerchief.</p>
<p>When the parlour door opened, she ran to the
front hall, and as Mr. Tracy passed her, she caught
his hand and pressed it fervently.</p>
<p>He said nothing, but smiling with the more than
earthly sweetness of one who truly loved his fellow
men, he hurried back to his deserted guests.</p>
<p>Hank followed close at his heels, and as he stood
in the hall doorway, looking already straighter and
taller, he smiled patronisingly down at 'Tilda Jane.</p>
<p>"You're a mighty fine girl, sissy, how old are you
now?"</p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[280]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>"Thirteen o'clock las' week—struck fourteen this—oh,
what did the minister say?"</p>
<p>Hank thumped his chest. "He's got me a situation,
sissy,—a situation that means bread and butter
for you and father, and maybe cake and jam."</p>
<p>The little girl locked her hands in intense excitement.
"Where, Hank, oh, where?"</p>
<p>"Here, sissy."</p>
<p>"In Ciscasset?"</p>
<p>"Yes."</p>
<p>'Tilda Jane suppressed a scream. "An' you can
live at home?"</p>
<p>"Well, I rather guess so."</p>
<p>'Tilda Jane's pleasure was too deep for words.
She stood gaping speechlessly at him.</p>
<p>Hank, in high good humour, beamed benevolently
on the orphan girl as she stood beside him. "What
are you sticking your head up an down for like a
chicken taking a drink?" he said at last.</p>
<p>"Hank, I'm givin' thanks," she said, reverently,
"givin' thanks that you've got led out of that roguey
business."</p>
<p>"I'll not get into anything of that kind again,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[281]</SPAN></span>
sissy," he said, with a shamefaced air. "You may
just be sure of that. I've had a great talk with that
friend of yours—and sissy, I'm obliged to you."</p>
<p>There was a queer break in his voice. An end
had suddenly come to his troubles. He would now
be in the way of earning an honest living. And it
would be a pleasure to live with his father and this
young girl who would look up to him and admire
him.</p>
<p>"Sissy," he said, abruptly, "where do you think
my new berth is?"</p>
<p>"I don't know—oh, tell me quick."</p>
<p>"In the Waysmith lumber mill. Mr. Waysmith
offered a place to your friend Tracy to-day for some
young man, and I'm the young man."</p>
<p>"With the Waysmiths?" murmured 'Tilda Jane,
"where your father used to be?"</p>
<p>"The same, sissy."</p>
<p>'Tilda Jane could stand no more. "O Lord, I
thank thee!" she cried, with a burst of tears, and
running into the kitchen, she buried her face in the
roller towel hanging on a door.</p>
<p>Hank sauntered after her, and on his way stumbled<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</SPAN></span>
over a bundle done up in a spotted red handkerchief.
He stooped down, picked it up, and opened it. It
contained a few lumps of sugar, a Bible, a pair of
socks, two handkerchiefs, half a loaf of cake, and
fifty cents wrapped in a piece of newspaper.</p>
<p>"My travelling kit," he murmured; "well, if she
ain't the best little creature!"</p>
<p>"Hello, 'Tilda!" he called out; "stop that
whimpering, and come and tell grampa the news."</p>
<p>The little girl hastily dried her face on the towel,
and ran into the bedroom where grampa sat surveying
them in bewilderment from the edge of his
bed. Some time ago he had come to his room with
the intention of undressing. His son's visit had
upset him, and he had been sitting confusedly listening
to the scraps of conversation he caught from
different parts of the house.</p>
<p>"Grampa, grampa!" cried 'Tilda Jane, running
in, and excitedly waving her hands, "Hank's goin'
to live at home with you, an' me, an' the dogs.
We'll be a real family. Oh, ain't it lovely, ain't it
lovely?" and catching hold of her skirts she began
a sidling and peculiar dance about the room.</p>
<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</SPAN></span></p>
<p>Hank laughed till the tears came into his eyes.
'Tilda Jane was good, but she was not graceful.
Then his merriment over, he began to yawn, and
'Tilda Jane, as keen of observation as ever, immediately
espied this sign of fatigue.</p>
<p>She caught up Gippie, who alone showed no pleasure
at the prospect of having another inmate of
the house, and danced out to the kitchen.</p>
<p>"Come out, grampa dear," she called, "we'll
all have a good supper, 'cause this is a most joyful
'casion."</p>
<p>As grampa started to limp out to the kitchen,
Hank quietly placed himself by his side.</p>
<p>The old man looked at him. "I'm not sorry
you're going to stay," he remarked, gruffly. "They
say there's no place like home."</p>
<p>"You'd better believe that's true, father," said
Hank, warmly; "a fellow gets sick of hotels and
boarding-houses. We'll have some more funds now
that I'm going to get at some decent kind of work.
You mustn't bother your head about expenses."</p>
<p>The old man sank into his chair with a sigh of
relief. His face was working strangely. Last year<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[284]</SPAN></span>
at this time he was alone and miserable in a cheerless
house. Now his son was with him, a brisk
young girl was flying about his kitchen, a bright fire
burned in the stove, a fire that was not unpleasantly
warm to his aged limbs even on this summer night.
A white cloth covered his formerly bare and uninviting
table; he was going to have pie, and coffee,
and toast and cake for supper,—surely the coming
of this orphan had been a fortunate thing for him,
and he slowly chafed his hands as he gazed at the
glowing bed of coals.</p>
<p>Hank was following 'Tilda Jane from kitchen to
pantry, and from pantry to kitchen.</p>
<p>"You're getting to be a great housekeeper," he
said, admiringly; "but we must not forget the
schooling. It's a great thing to be educated. You
can't hold your own in this world unless you know
something. You wrote me Mrs. Tracy was teaching
you some, didn't you?"</p>
<p>'Tilda Jane paused as she filled a sugar-bowl.</p>
<p>"Yes, three evenin's a week. She's a boss—I
mean a good teacher. I learned some at the 'sylum,—no,
the asylum, when I warn't—no, when I<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[285]</SPAN></span>
werent'—no, when I wasn't in the kitchen. And
grampa talks to me some. He's a fine scholar."</p>
<p>"That's good—get all you can; but three evenings
a week ain't enough. As soon as I can compass
it, I'll have some one to take care of father
daytimes, and let you go to school."</p>
<p>"To school!" said the little girl, "to learn more—to
know how to speak proper! Oh, oh, I'm mos'
too happy to live! Hank Dillson, I think you're
the mos' beautiful man that was ever made!" and,
dropping her sugar-bowl on the shelf, she seized a
hand of the ex-creamery shark, and warmly pressed
it between her little lean palms.</p>
<p>Hank, in some embarrassment, murmured, "Oh,
fudge, I'm not as good as the next one."</p>
<p>"You're a million times better!" exclaimed 'Tilda
Jane. "Oh, what a glad man Mr. Waysmith will
be to have you in his mill! Come now, let's have
supper. Dear ole grampa mus' get to bed. You
wouldn't like to kill him with joy the first night
you're home."</p>
<p>A few minutes later 'Tilda Jane was beaming
behind the big coffee-pot. At last she had become<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[286]</SPAN></span>
a member of a really happy family. Her dogs were
stretched luxuriously on their rag mat by the stove,
Grampa, calm and quiet, was sipping his coffee, and
listening to some of Hank's travelling adventures.</p>
<p>She could not contain her delight. Her heart
was too full, and presently she burst into low, irrepressible
laughter.</p>
<p>Her companions stopped talking and stared at
her.</p>
<p>"Oh, I can't help it!" she exclaimed, wildly,
"I feel as if I'd come through a big sea of troubles
to reach the promised land! I'm crazy—I'm
crazy!" and too excited to keep still she pushed
her chair aside, and rocked back and forth on her
feet.</p>
<p>She saw stretching before her a long vista of
happy years—the sight was almost too much for
her, yet even in her ecstasy she thought of other
children less fortunate.</p>
<p>"Hank, brother Hank!" she called suddenly,
"the Tracys say to pass on blessings. All the
world ain't joyful like us. When you make a little
money will you let me write to the lady-boards for<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[287]</SPAN></span>
another orphan,—the ugliest little orphan they've
got,—worse than me, if it's not unpossible."</p>
<p>"You just write it down that I will," said Hank,
gazing kindly and benevolently at her flushed face.</p>
<p>"We'll do it," cried 'Tilda Jane. "We'll be
good to that other orphan. I know they'll have
one, but how can I wait? What shall I do? I
mus' hug some one, I'm so happy!"</p>
<p>She flashed a glance at the dogs. They were
sleepy and comfortable. "Grampa, I guess it'll
have to be you," she said, gaily, and, running to the
old man, she threw her arms around his wrinkled
neck, kissed his bald head, and fulfilled her promise
of a hugging so vigorously that at last he called for
mercy.</p>
<p>"Now, I'll go take something," she said, demurely,
and, with a last caress, "you darlin' ole
grampa—I could eat you—Lord, give me a thankful
heart for all these mercies," then, reverently
bending her head over her plate, she took up her
knife and fork with a long and happy sigh.</p>
<p class="p2 pfs90">THE END.</p>
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<p><b>The Young Archer.</b> By <span class="smcap">Charles E. Brimblecom</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">A strong and wholesome story of a boy who accompanied
Columbus on his voyage to the New World.</span></p>
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<p class="pfs240">Our Devoted Friend<br/>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">By SARAH K. BOLTON</p>
<p class="pfs80 wsp">AUTHOR OF "GIRLS WHO HAVE BECOME FAMOUS," ETC.</p>
<p class="pfs100"><em>Fully illustrated with many reproductions from original
photographs.</em></p>
<p class="pfs100">1 vol., small quarto, $1.50</p>
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<p>This book of the dog and his friends does for the
canine member of the household what Helen M. Winslow's
book, "Concerning Cats," did for the feline.
No one who cares for dogs—and that class includes
nearly all who do not care for cats, and some who do—will
admit that the subject of Mrs. Bolton's book is a less
felicitous choice than that of its predecessor; while the
author's well-known ability as a writer and lecturer, as
well as her sympathy with her subject, are a sufficient
guarantee of a happy treatment.</p>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">By CUYLER REYNOLDS</p>
<p><em>With many full-page illustrations from original photographs
by the author, together with a frontispiece from a
drawing by Maud Humphreys.</em></p>
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<p>These are just the bedtime stories that children always
ask for, but do not always get. Rosamond and Rosalind
are the hero and heroine of many happy adventures in
town and on their grandfather's farm; and the happy
listeners to their story will unconsciously absorb a vast
amount of interesting knowledge of birds, animals, and
flowers, just the things about which the curiosity of
children from four to twelve years old is most insatiable.
The book will be a boon to tired mothers, as a delight to
wide-awake children.</p>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">By MARY F. WADE</p>
<p class="pfs100">Four volumes, each illustrated, cloth, 12mo, 60 cents</p>
<p class="pfs120">
<span class="smcap">Volume I.</span><br/>
<span class="xl">Our Little Japanese Cousin</span><br/>
<span class="smcap">Volume II.</span><br/>
<span class="xl">Our Little Brown Cousin</span><br/>
<span class="smcap">Volume III.</span><br/>
<span class="xl">Our Little Indian Cousin</span><br/>
<span class="smcap">Volume IV.</span><br/>
<span class="xl">Our Little Russian Cousin</span></p>
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<p>These are the most interesting and delightful accounts
possible of child-life in other lands, filled with quaint
sayings, doings and adventures. The "Little Japanese
Cousin," with her toys in her wide sleeve and her tiny
bag of paper handkerchiefs; the "Little Brown Cousin,"
in whose home the leaves of the breadfruit-tree serve for
plates and the halves of the cocoanut shells for cups; the
"Little Indian Cousin," who lives the free life of the
forest, and the "Little Russian Cousin," who dwells by
the wintry Neva, are truly fascinating characters to the
little cousins who will read about them.</p>
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JUVENILES BY WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS</p>
<p>We shall issue ten new volumes in this well-known
series of child classics, and announce three as follows:</p>
<p class="pfs180">A Little Puritan Pioneer</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By EDITH ROBINSON</p>
<p>Author of "A Loyal Little Maid," "A Little Puritan's
First Christmas," etc.</p>
<p class="pfs180">Madam Liberality</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By MRS. EWING</p>
<p>Author of "Jackanapes," "A Great Emergency,"
"Story of a Short Life," etc., etc.</p>
<p class="pfs180">A Bad Penny</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By JOHN T. WHEELWRIGHT</p>
<p>The other seven will include new stories by Louise
de la Ramée, Miss Mulock, Nellie Hellis, Will Allen
Dromgoole, etc., etc.</p>
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<p class="p4 pfs135 pg-brk">Selections from<br/>
<span class="smcap">L. C. Page & Company's</span><br/>
Books for Young People</p>
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<p><b>Old Father Gander:</b> <span class="smcap">or, The Better-Half of Mother
Goose</span>. <span class="smcap">Rhymes, Chimes, and Jingles</span> scratched from
his own goose-quill for American Goslings. Illustrated
with impossible Geese, hatched and raised by <span class="smcap">Walter
Scott Howard</span>.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., oblong quarto, cloth decorative</td><td class="tdr wd20">$2.00</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">The illustrations are so striking and fascinating that the
book will appeal to the young people aside from the fact
even of the charm and humor of the songs and rhymes.
There are thirty-two full-page plates, of which many are
in color. The color illustrations are a distinct and successful
departure from the old-fashioned lithographic
work hitherto invariably used for children's books.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Crock of Gold:</b> <span class="smcap">A New Book of Fairy Tales</span>.
By <span class="smcap">S. Baring Gould</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Mehalah," "Old Country Life," "Old English
Fairy Tales," etc. With twenty-five full-page illustrations
by F. D. Bedford.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., tall 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top</td><td class="tdr">$1.50</td></tr>
</table>
<p><span class="negin1">This volume will prove a source of delight to the children
of two continents, answering their always increasing demand
for "more fairy stories."</span></p>
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<p><b>Shireen and Her Friends:</b> <span class="smcap">The Autobiography of a
Persian Cat</span>. By <span class="smcap">Gordon Stables</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Illustrated by Harrison Weir.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative</td><td class="tdr">$1.25</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">A more charming book about animals Dr. Stables himself
has not written. It is similar in character to "Black
Beauty," "Beautiful Joe," and other books which teach
us to love and protect the dumb animals.</span></p>
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<p><b>Bully, Fag, and Hero.</b> By <span class="smcap">Charles J. Mansford</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">With six full-page illustrations by S. H. Vedder.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top</td><td class="tdr">$1.50</td></tr>
</table>
<p><span class="negin1">An interesting story of schoolboy life and adventure in
school and during the holidays.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Adventures of a Boy Reporter</b> <span class="smcap">in the Philippines</span>.
By <span class="smcap">Harry Steele Morrison</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "A Yankee Boy's Success."</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large 12mo, cloth, illustrated</td><td class="tdr">$1.25</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">A true story of the courage and enterprise of an American
lad. It is a splendid boys' book, filled with healthy interest,
and will tend to stimulate and encourage the proper
ambition of the young reader.</span></p>
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<p><b>Tales Told in the Zoo.</b> By <span class="smcap">F. C. Gould</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">With many illustrations from original drawings.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large quarto</td><td class="tdr">$2.00</td></tr>
</table>
<p><span class="negin1">A new book for young people on entirely original lines.</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">The tales are supposed to be told by an old adjutant stork
in the Zoological Gardens to the assembled birds located
there, and they deal with legendary and folk-lore stories
of the origins of various creatures, mostly birds, and
their characteristics.</span></p>
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<p><b>Philip:</b> <span class="smcap">The Story of a Boy Violinist</span>. By T. W. O.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., 12mo, cloth</td><td class="tdr">$1.00</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">The life-story of a boy, reared among surroundings singular
enough to awaken interest at the start, is described by
the present author as it could be described only by one
thoroughly familiar with the scene. The reader is carried
from the cottages of the humblest coal-miners into the
realms of music and art; and the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">finale</i> of this charming
tale is a masterpiece of pathetic interest.</span></p>
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<p><b>Black Beauty:</b> <span class="smcap">The Autobiography of a Horse</span>. By
<span class="smcap">Anna Sewell</span>. <em>New Illustrated Edition.</em></p>
<p><span class="negin1">With twenty-five full-page drawings by Winifred Austin.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top</td><td class="tdr">$1.25</td></tr>
</table>
<p><span class="negin1">There have been many editions of this classic, but we confidently
offer this one as the most appropriate and handsome
yet produced. The illustrations are of special
value and beauty, and should make this the standard
edition wherever illustrations worthy of the story are
desired.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Voyage of the Avenger:</b> <span class="smcap">In the Days of the
Dashing Drake</span>. By <span class="smcap">Henry St. John</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "A Middy of Nelson's Day," etc. With twenty-five
full-page illustrations by Paul Hardy.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., tall 12mo, cloth decorative, gilt top, 400 pages</td><td class="tdr">$1.50</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">A book of adventure, the scene of which is laid in that
stirring period of colonial extension when England's
famous naval heroes encountered the ships of Spain,
both at home and in the West Indies. Mr. St. John
has given his boy readers a rattling good story of the
sea. There is plenty of adventure, sufficient in fact to
keep a boy fixed near the fireside until the last page is
reached.</span></p>
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<p><b>A Child's History of Spain.</b> By <span class="smcap">Leonard Williams</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Ballads and Songs of Spain," etc.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., small 12mo, with frontispiece, cloth, gilt top</td><td class="tdr">$0.75</td></tr>
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<p><span class="negin1">Although the recent war with Spain has aroused general
interest and caused a great demand for literature relating
to the subject, there has not as yet been published a condensed
history of Spain for young people. Mr. Williams's
little book will prove a desirable addition to the children's
historical library.</span></p>
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<p><b>Fairy Folk from Far and Near.</b> By <span class="smcap">A. C. Woolf</span>, M. A.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">With numerous full-page color illustrations by Hans Reitz.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl pad2 wd90">1 vol., large 12mo, cloth decorative</td><td class="tdr">$1.50</td></tr>
</table>
<p><span class="negin1">It is long since there has appeared such a thoroughly delightful
volume of fairy tales as that of Annie C. Woolf.
An added attraction to the book is found in the exquisite
colored illustrations, the work of Hans Reitz. As a
Christmas gift-book to children, these tales will be hard
to excel.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Magnet Stories.</b> By <span class="smcap">Lynde Palmer</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">A new edition; new binding and larger size volume, 5 vols.,
12mo. Reduced price.</span></p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
<tr><td class="tdl wd90">Drifting and Steering</td><td class="tdr">$1.00</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tdl">One Day's Weaving</td><td class="tdr">1.00</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tdl">Archie's Shadow</td><td class="tdr">1.00</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tdl">John-Jack</td><td class="tdr">1.00</td></tr>
<tr><td class="tdl">Jeannette's Cisterns</td><td class="tdr">1.00</td></tr>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">Volume III.</p>
<p class="pfs180">The Hero of the Hills</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By G. WALDO BROWNE</p>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">Volume I.</p>
<p class="pfs180">The Woodranger</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By G. WALDO BROWNE</p>
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<p class="pfs120 smcap">Volume II.</p>
<p class="pfs180">The Young Gunbearer</p>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By G. WALDO BROWNE</p>
<p class="pfs100">Each large 12mo, cloth, fully illustrated, $1.00</p>
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<p>There is the reality of history behind these stories,
the successful series of "Woodranger Tales," the scope
and trend of which are accurately set forth in the title.
While full of adventure, the interest in which sometimes
rises to the pitch of excitement, the stories are not sensational,
for Mr. Browne writes with dignity, if with liveliness.
The books will not fail to interest any lively,
wholesome-minded boy.</p>
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<p class="pfs240 lsp">Prince Harold</p>
<p class="pfs80">A FAIRY STORY</p>
<br/>
<p class="pfs120 smcap">By L. F. BROWN</p>
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<p class="pfs100"><em>With ninety full-page illustrations</em></p>
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<p>A delightful fairy tale for children, dealing with the
life of a charming young Prince, who, aided by the Moon
Spirit, discovers, after many adventures, a beautiful girl
whom he makes his Princess. He is so enamored that
he dwells with his bride in complete seclusion for a
while, entrusting the conduct of his kingdom meantime
to his monkey servant, Longtail. The latter marries
a monkey princess from Amfalulu, and their joint reign is
described with the drollest humor. The real rulers
finally return and upset the reign of the pretenders. An
original and fascinating story for young people.</p>
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<p><b>The Little Colonel's House Party.</b> By <span class="smcap">Annie Fellows-Johnston</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Little Colonel," etc. Illustrated by E. B. Barry.</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">Mrs. Johnston has endeared herself to the children by her
charming little books published in the Cosy Corner
Series. Accordingly, a longer story by her will be
eagerly welcomed by the little ones who have so much
enjoyed each story from her pen.</span></p>
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<p><b>Chums.</b> By <span class="smcap">Maria Louise Pool</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Little Bermuda," etc. Illustrated by L. J.
Bridgman.</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">"Chums" is a girls' book, about girls and for girls. It relates
the adventures, in school, and during vacation, of
two friends.</span></p>
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<p><b>Three Little Crackers.</b> <span class="smcap">From Down in Dixie</span>. By <span class="smcap">Will
Allen Dromgoole</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "The Farrier's Dog." A fascinating story for
boys and girls, of the adventures of a family of Alabama
children who move to Florida and grow up in the South.</span></p>
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<p><b>Miss Gray's Girls:</b> <span class="smcap">or, Summer Days in the Scottish
Highlands</span>. By <span class="smcap">Jeannette A. Grant</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">A delightfully told story of a summer trip through Scotland,
somewhat out of the beaten track. A teacher,
starting at Glasgow, takes a lively party of girls, her
pupils, through the Trossachs to Oban, through the
Caledonian Canal to Inverness, and as far north as
Brora.</span></p>
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<p><b>King Pippin:</b> <span class="smcap">A Story for Children</span>. By <span class="smcap">Mrs. Gerard
Ford</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Pixie."</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">One of the most charming books for young folks which
has been issued for some time. The hero is a lovable
little fellow, whose frank and winning ways disarm even
the crustiest of grandmothers, and win for him the affection
of all manner of unlikely people.</span></p>
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<p><b>Feats on the Fiord:</b> <span class="smcap">A Tale of Norwegian Life</span>. By
<span class="smcap">Harriet Martineau</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">This admirable book, read and enjoyed by so many young
people, deserves to be brought to the attention of parents
in search of wholesome reading for their children to-day.
It is something more than a juvenile book, being really
one of the most instructive books about Norway and
Norwegian life and manners ever written.</span></p>
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<p><b>Songs and Rhymes for the Little Ones.</b> Compiled by <span class="smcap">Mary
Whitney Morrison</span> (Jenny Wallis).</p>
<p><span class="negin1">New edition, with an introduction by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">No better description of this admirable book can be given
than Mrs. Whitney's happy introduction:</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">"One might almost as well offer June roses with the assurance
of their sweetness, as to present this lovely little
gathering of verse, which announces itself, like them, by
its own deliciousness. Yet, as Mrs. Morrison's charming
volume has long been a delight to me, I am only too
happy to declare that it is to me—and to two families
of my grandchildren—the most bewitching book of
songs for little people that we have ever known."</span></p>
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<p><b>The Young Pearl Divers:</b> <span class="smcap">A Story of Australian Adventure
by Land and by Sea</span>. By <span class="smcap">Lieut. H.
Phelps Whitmarsh</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">This is a splendid story for boys, by an author who writes
in vigorous and interesting language, of scenes and adventures
with which he is personally acquainted.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Woodranger.</b> By <span class="smcap">G. Waldo Browne</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">The first of a series of five volumes entitled "The Woodranger
Tales."</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">Although based strictly on historical facts the book is an
interesting and exciting tale of adventure, which will
delight all boys, and be by no means unwelcome to their
elders.</span></p>
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<p><b>Three Children of Galilee:</b> <span class="smcap">A Life of Christ for the
Young</span>. By <span class="smcap">John Gordon</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">There has long been a need for a Life of Christ for the
young, and this book has been written in answer to this
demand. That it will meet with great favor is beyond
question, for parents have recognized that their boys and
girls want something more than a Bible story, a dry
statement of facts, and that, in order to hold the attention
of the youthful readers, a book on this subject
should have life and movement as well as scrupulous
accuracy and religious sentiment.</span></p>
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<p><b>Little Bermuda.</b> By <span class="smcap">Maria Louise Pool</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">Author of "Dally," "A Redbridge Neighborhood," "In a
Dike Shanty," "Friendship and Folly," etc.</span></p>
<p><span class="negin1">The adventures of "Little Bermuda" from her home in
the tropics to a fashionable American boarding-school.
The resulting conflict between the two elements in her
nature, the one inherited from her New England ancestry,
and the other developed by her West Indian surroundings,
gave Miss Pool unusual opportunity for
creating an original and fascinating heroine.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Wild Ruthvens:</b> <span class="smcap">A Home Story</span>. By <span class="smcap">Curtis York</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">A story illustrating the mistakes, failures, and successes of
a family of unruly but warm-hearted boys and girls.
They are ultimately softened and civilized by the influence
of an invalid cousin, Dick Trevanion, who comes to
live with them.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Adventures of a Siberian Cub.</b> Translated from the
Russian of Slibitski by <span class="smcap">Leon Golschmann</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">This is indeed a book which will be hailed with delight, especially
by children who love to read about animals.
The interesting and pathetic adventures of the orphan-bear,
Mishook, will appeal to old and young in much the
same way as have "Black Beauty" and "Beautiful Joe."</span></p>
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<p><b>Timothy Dole.</b> By <span class="smcap">Juniata Salsbury</span>.</p>
<p><span class="negin1">The youthful hero, and a genuine hero he proves to be,
starts from home, loses his way, meets with startling adventures,
finds friends, kind and many, and grows to be a
manly man. It is a wholesome and vigorous book, that
boys and girls, and parents as well, will read and enjoy.</span></p>
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<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE</strong></p>
<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been
corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within
the text and consultation of external sources.</p>
<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text,
and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example:
writing-pad, writing pad; cocoanut; curtsey; beshawled.</p>
<p><SPAN href="#Page_38">Pg 38</SPAN>, 'Onct our washerwoman' replaced by 'Once our washerwoman'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_38">Pg 38</SPAN>, 'Onct I took' replaced by 'Once I took'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_42">Pg 42</SPAN>, 'Onct when cats come' replaced by 'Once when cats come'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_90">Pg 90</SPAN>, 'dare the undarable' replaced by 'dare the undareable'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_163">Pg 163</SPAN>, 'only onct a day?' replaced by 'only once a day?'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_180">Pg 180</SPAN>, 'onct have blue eyes' replaced by 'once have blue eyes'.<br/>
<SPAN href="#Page_269">Pg 269</SPAN>, "You mus' he" replaced by "You mus' be".<br/></p>
<p><SPAN href="#PBC">Publisher's Book Catalog:</SPAN><br/>
In the Cosy Corner Series, 'and announce four' replaced by 'and
announce three'.</p>
<p>A page from 'Gift Series for Boys and Girls' has been moved to its
proper position at the end of that section. This page described
'Three Children of Galilee' through 'Timothy Dole'.</p>
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