CONTENTS

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The Flower that Grew in the Sand[1]
Esther’s “Fourth”[21]
The Blow-out at Jenkins’s Grocery[31]
The Takin’ in of Old Mis’ Lane[41]
The Maneuvering of Mrs. Sybert[67]
A Point of Knuckling-Down[79]
The Cuttin’-Out of Bart Winn[141]
Zarelda[183]
In the Bitter Root Mountains[207]
Patience Appleby’s Confessing-Up[217]
The Mother of “Pills”[243]
Mrs. Risley’s Christmas Dinner[263]