CONTENTS.

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The Birds’ Orchestra[ 7]
My Prayer To Truth[14]
A Scene in Washington, N. C.[16]
Little Naples by the Sea[17]
The Family of My Friend Jones[17]
The King’s Marriage[19]
The Hermit Thrush[19]
My Retreat[23]
The Mocking-Bird[24]
The Jay and I—A Dialogue[26]
Nature’s Heart[27]
A Nigger and a Mule[28]
Virginia’s Natural Bridge[30]
The Might of Matutinal Music[30]
A Perpetual King[31]
The Cotton Gin[32]
The Cotton Mill[32]
My Own Little Girl[32]
My Butterfly[33]
Was That Somebody I?[34]
My Sabbath Sermon[35]
Pilot Mountain[36]
Her Prison Life[37]
Aurelius Augustinus[38]
O, That Income Tax![40]
In Florida[41]
Two Little Orphans[42]
Trouble and Play[43]
Some Small Surprises[43]
The Rhythm Universal[44]
The Stone Crosses and the Fairies[45]
The Sun Flower[46]
Colonel Diamond and Grand-daughter[47]
The Wild Wood[48]
The Beginning of Things[49]
The End of Things[49]
When the Junco Comes[50]
James Bradley Jackson[51]
A Story of Colonial Times[53]
“Come on wid yer Money fur Me”[55]
Good Out of Evil[56]
Christmas[57]
Mrs. Josephine F. Hamill[58]
A Chick’s Cry[59]
The Kid and the Cop[59]
The Over Favored and The Chanceless Child[61]
The Slanderer[61]
The World’s Greatest Egotist[62]
Little River Royal[63]
Give Me Both[64]
Manifold Beauty and the Man[64]
Chimney Rock[66]
The Elephant Dance[67]
Least Yet Greatest[67]
Old Ship Church[67]
A Little Toast to the Men of the Press[68]
Mother Indeed[68]
Nathan O’Berry[68]
The Bishop’s Garden[69]
My Triolet[70]
Ye Bonny Boys[71]
A Ballade to the Girls[71]
A Mountain Top View[72]
One Aged John Smith and His Youthful Confessions [73]
Ode on Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations[74]
Another Birthday[77]
Oh, Baby Mine[77]
The Snake That’s King[78]
The Heart of France[79]
The Red Maple[81]
A Sonnet to Mrs. O. C. Bullock[81]
The Strikers[81]
November Gloom[82]
James Mitchell Rogers[83]
Erwin Holt[83]
Just an Introduction[83]
Judge Franklin Chase Hoyt[84]
A Little Index of the Coming Day[85]
Winged Tourists[86]
How My Easter Dawned[86]
Helen Keller[88]
The Dancing Tassel[89]
Walter Malone[91]
The Dutiful Flower[92]
My Holiday[92]
The Aeolian Harp[92]
The God-Man and Myself[93]
Death’s Doom[94]
The Dying Year[96]