Copyright, 1900, 1926, by Edgar S. Werner Publishing & Supply Co.

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Afore Yo' Daddy Comes.-Lalia Mitchell

Apparition, An.

Aristarchus Studies Elocution.-Susie A. Bisbee

Art-Critic, An.-Sam Walter Foss.

Auld Daddy Darkness.- James Ferguson

Baby's Name, The .

Banquet, The.—Mary Agnes Tircker

Battle of Manila. The.—Amelia Burr

Beruria.

Boy's King, A.-S. E. Kiser

Boy Wanted

“Bring Out Your Dead.”—Margaret H. Lawless

Budd Wilkins at the Show.-S. E. Kiser

Bull, The.—Margaret Johnson

Case of Spoons and Brother Tom, A

'Ceptin' Ike.-William Devere

Christmas Letter, A.-James Courtney Challiss

Clemency of Salah-ud-Deen, The.--Edwin Arnold

Coming Out of Church

Complaint, A.-Tudor Jenks

Confession

Courtin' Call, A

Dagmar.—Elna Harwood

Death of Cleopatra, The

Fellow's Mother, A .

Five Little Brothers

George Washington

Good Name More Desirable Than Riches, A.-Louis B.

Coley .

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Gwendolen.-Hattie Tyng Griswold

He Held Her Hands'.

House-Cleaning-Franklyn W. Lee

How an Angel Looks

How Liab and I Parted.-N. S. Emerson

If

"Inasmuch."-Wallace Bruce

Incident, An.-Agnes MacDonell

Jean Noel: A Story of Christmas in France

Just as She Told It.-Julia Witheridge

Knight's False Vow, The .

Last Taps.—Theodore Roberts

Laugh in Church, A.

Letter to Mother Nature, A.-Sydney Dayre

Lie for a Life, A.-George Henry Galpin

Mortifying Mistake, The.-Anna M. Pratt

Motherhood.-C. S. Calverley

New Deacon, The.—Wade Whipple

New Woman, The.-Emma Playter Seabury

Ohliging His Landlady.—Charles D. Hickman

Old Dobbin.-William L. Keese

Old Man's Ship Comes Home, The.-H. H. Brown

On Crutches.—William Russell Rose

One of Christ's Little Ones

On the Terrace.-E. Nesbit

Our Hired Girl.— James Whitcomb Riley

Outcast, The

Out of Her Reckoning

Oyster Yarn, An

Perfect Day, A.-Clyde Fitch

Pickpocket, The

Plain-Spoken Philosophy.—Howard Y. Newel

Play of Fan-cy, A.—Mary Steevens Farrand .

Race at Devil's Elbow, The.-James Buckham

Reparation

Romola's Flight.-George Eliot

Rosy North, The

Search for Harold's Body, The.—Bulwer Lytton

She Earned Her Half.—N. P. Babcock .

Slave's Auction, A.-W. A. Eaton

Spelling in the Nursery .

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Story of a Little Red Hen.-S. E. Eastman.
Studious Girl.-Minnie W. Gates...

That Boy John.-Fannie M. P. Deas..

Two.—Mary Ashley Townsend..

Two of a Kind

Unexpected Denouement.— Jerome K. Jerome

U. S. Spells "Us.”—May N. Bradford.

Veteran.-Minna Irving

Visiting Laura Belle.-S. E. Kiser.

Way to Conquer.—Barry Cornwall

What's the Good ?—Harry C. Webber..

What Vacation Is.-H. C. Dodge..

Who Should Wipe the Dishes.—Mary Kelly.

Why Liab and I Parted.-N. S. Emerson.

Wouldn't You?

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