_Jan Vedder’s Wife._ _A Border Shepherdess._ _Feet of Clay._ _Bernicia._ _Remember the Alamo._ _She Loved a Sailor._ _The Lone House._ _A Sister of Esau._ _Prisoners of Conscience._ _The Tioni Whelp._ _The Black Shilling._ _The Bow of Orange Ribbon._ _A Maid of Old New York._ _A Song of a Single Note._ _The Maid of Maiden Lane._ _Trinity Bells._ _The Belle of Bowling Green._ _The Red Leaves of a Human Heart._ _The Strawberry Handkerchief_, 1908. _The Hands of Compulsion_, 1909. _The House on Cherry Street_, 1909. _All the Days of My Life_, 1913. _Playing With Fire_, 1914. _The Winning of Lucia_, 1915. _Three Score and Ten_, 1915. _Measures of a Man_, 1915. _Profit and Loss_, 1916. _Joan_, 1917. _Christine_, 1917. _An Orkney Maid_, 1918. _The Paper Cap_, 1918. _Songs in the Common Chord_, 1920. _(About 40 other books.)_ _Mrs. Barr’s novels are published by D. Appleton & Company, New York. Some may be had in reprint, others are out of print._ CHAPTER XXVII ALICE HEGAN RICE The author of _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch_ was born in 1870 in a big old country house at Shelbyville, Kentucky, the home of her grandfather, Judge Caldwell. Her name was, indeed, Alice Caldwell Hegan as a girl. It was Alice Hegan when she wrote the very small book which is quite as world famous as _Mr. Dooley_, Mrs. Wiggs’s pleasant contemporary. It became Alice Hegan Rice on December 18, 1902, when the daughter of Samuel W. Hegan and Sallie P. Hegan was married to the poet Cale Young Rice. And they have lived happily ever after. They have traveled the world over together. They rest, between whiles, at a big, columned house in Louisville, Kentucky. There are photographs extant showing them in pleasant idleness on the broad verandas. Mr. Rice writes songs inspired by their travels together which make such books as _Wraiths and Realities_ and songs inspired by their mere happy proximity, making a book such as _Poems to A. H. R._, both published in 1918. Mrs. Rice no longer writes the fortunes of Mrs. Wiggs in disused pages of an old business ledger (for that is how the first draft of _Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch_ was made). But she writes as agreeably as ever. Mostly shorter pieces. She is not really a novelist but a short story writer. Even _Mrs. Wiggs_ was but a long short story.