Brother Rabbit’s Cradle _Joel Chandler Harris_ 7 The Little Baxters Go Marketing _Tudor Jenks_ 18 A Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of To-day _Elizabeth Harrison_ 23 The Taxes of Middlebrook _Ray Stannard Baker_ 30 The Cure of Fear _Norman Duncan_ 43 A Christmas Adventure _J. E. Chamberlin_ 55 Chased by the Trail _Jack London_ 66 Big Timber Beacon _John L. Mathews_ 79 How Hilda Got a School _Lelia Munsell_ 90 The Imp and the Drum _Josephine D. Bacon_ 99 The Second String _James B. Connolly_ 116 Holding the Pipe _Albert W. Tolman_ 128 The Travelling Doll _Evelyn Snead Barnett_ 137 The Doll Doctor _E. V. Lucas_ 152 The Idea that Went Astray _Pauline C. Bouvé_ 168 Gravity Gregg _Isaac Ogden Rankin_ 171 Jonnasen _Dallas Lore Sharp_ 179 In the Oven _Richard W. Child_ 186 On a Slide-Board _Robert Barnes_ 192 The Call of the Sea _Frederick Palmer_ 201 On a Tight Rope _Albert W. Tolman_ 213 Down the Incline _Charles Newton Hood_ 220 The Cost of Loving _Frederick O. Bartlett_ 225 Ladybird _Edith Barnard_ 241 The Drasnoe Pipe-Line _Arthur Stanwood Pier_ 255 Manuk Del Monte _Rowland Thomas_ 269 The Man Without a Country _Edward Everett Hale_ 279 The Foreman _Stewart E. White_ 315 The Gray Collie _Georgia W. Pangborn_ 328 The Fore-Room Rug _Kate Douglas Wiggin_ 340 Cressy’s New-Year’s Rent _Albert Lee_ 359 Mr. O’Leary’s Second Love _Charles Lever_ 370 THE ROSE AND THE RING _William M. Thackeray_ 389