Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Lesley Halamek and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ST. NICHOLAS: SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR GIRLS AND BOYS, CONDUCTED BY MARY MAPES DODGE. VOLUME V. NOVEMBER, 1877, TO NOVEMBER, 1878. SCRIBNER & CO., NEW YORK. Copyright by SCRIBNER & CO., 1878. PRESS OF FRANCIS HART & CO. NEW YORK CONTENTS. Child-Queen, A. (Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks) Cecilia Cleveland 1 Chased by Wolves. (Illustrated) George Dudley Lawson 3 Jingle: There was an Old Person of Crewd. (Illustrated by K. W. P.) 6 Mollie's Boyhood. (Illustrated by George White) Sarah E. Chester 7 *The Largest Volcano in the World. (Illustrated) Sarah Coan 13 Making it Skip. Verse. (Illustrated by Thomas Moran) M. M. D. 15 *Willow Wand, The. Poem. (Illustrated) A. E. W. 16 *Story that Wouldn't be Told, The. (Illustrated) Louise Stockton 18 Polly: A Before-Christmas Story. (Illustrated) Hope Ledyard 19 Boggs's Photograph. Picture. 21 Lord Mayor of London's Show, The. (Illustrated) Jennie A. Owen 22 My Girl. Poem. John S. Adams 25 Mars, the Planet of War. (Illustrated by the Author) Richard A. Proctor 26 *Domestic Tragedy, A. In Two Parts (Illustration) 31 Bell-Ringers, The Stickleback. (Illustrated by James C. Beard) C. F. Holder 31 Cricket on the Hearth, The. Poem. (Illustrated )Clara Doty Bates 33 How I Weighed the Thanksgiving Turkey. G. M. Shaw 34 Nimble Jim and the Magic Melon. (Illustrated by E. B. Bensell) J. A. Judson 34 "Oh, I'm My Mamma's Lady-Girl." Verse. (Illustrated by Addie Ledyard) M. M. D. 41 Christmas-Gifts, A Budget of Home-Made. (Illustrated) 42 *Little Tweet. (Illustrated) 64 *Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Illustrated) 66 Can a Little Child Like Me? (Thanksgiving Hymn) Mary Mapes Dodge 68 "Baby's Opera" and Walter Crane, The. 69 *The Letter Box. 69 *The Moons of Mars. 69 *The Riddle Box. (Illustrated) 71 [Transcriber's Notes: For ease of navigation, this Table of Contents has been taken from the full contents listing for the volume. Some entries were missing from the index. For completeness they have been added and marked with an asterisk. The full list of contents for Volume V is to be found at the end of this text.