Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "She took up her verse where William had interrupted."] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMMY LOU HER BOOK & HEART By GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN And Illustrated By CHARLES LOUIS HINTON "My Book and Heart Must Never Part." --New England Primer GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers--New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1901, 1902, by S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1902, by McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. Fifteenth Impression ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To My Sister THE AUNT CORDELIA of these stories, this book is affectionately inscribed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PAGE The Right Promethean Fire 1 A Little Feminine Casabianca 29 Hare-and-Tortoise or the Bliss of Ignorance 49 "I Sing of Honour and the Faithful Heart" 81 The Play's the Thing 113 The Shadow of a Tragedy 135 All the Winds of Doctrine 165 The Confines of Consistency 193 A Ballad in Print o' Life 225 Venus or Minerva? 247 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RIGHT PROMETHEAN FIRE Emmy Lou, laboriously copying digits, looked up. The boy sitting in line in the next row of desks was making signs to her. She had noticed the little boy before. He was a square little boy, with a sprinkling of freckles over the bridge of the nose and a cheerful breadth of nostril. His teeth were wide apart, and his smile was broad and constant. Not that Emmy Lou could have told all this. She only knew that to her the knowledge of the little boy concerning the things peculiar to the Primer World seemed limitless. And now the little boy was beckoning Emmy Lou. She did not know him, but neither did she know any of the seventy other little boys and girls making the Primer Class.