TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Each story has an illustrated title and begins with an illustrated drop-cap. Unless a caption is present, the [Illustration] tag has been skipped in the titles and drop-caps for smoother text continuity. Of the rest, illustrations without a caption have a short description in parentheses, for example [Illustration: (Publisher’s colophon)]. Text in italics is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Text in Small Capitals has been rendered in ALL CAPITALS. First words of each story - ALL CAPITALS in the original - has been rendered here in sentence case. The text, including punctuation, was preserved as in the original except for the following: on page 9, “holiday than Chrstmas” was changed to “holiday than Christmas” on page 19, “Weems ‘Life of Washington,’” was changed to “Weems’ ‘Life of Washington,’” on page 19, “Aesops Fables” was changed to “Aesop’s Fables” on page 48, the text beginning with “The idea of having” was moved to a new paragraph. on page 67, “of it’s beauty” was changed to “of its beauty” [Illustration: Really So Stories] [Illustration: (Globe)] REALLY~SO ~STORIES~ _by_ Elizabeth Gordon [Illustration: (Flower)] _Pictures by_ John Rae [Illustration: (Publisher’s colophon)] _Published by_ P.F. Volland Company Chicago New York Boston Toronto [Illustration: (Publisher’s colophon)] Copyright 1924 P.F. Volland Company Chicago, U.S.A. (All rights reserved) Copyright, Great Britain, 1924 Printed in U.S.A. CONTENTS