CONTENTS.
| Colonel Myles’ Adventures in Africa and India | [1] |
| A Sugar Camp | [31] |
| Silver Plating | [34] |
| Very Ancient Animals | [37] |
| Iturim and His Fortunes | [42] |
| Large Houses for Small Tenants | [54] |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Gutefundus | [61] |
| Some Big Guns | [70] |
| Tom Reynolds and Moriyama | [74] |
| Luminous Insects | [93] |
| Owls On a Frolic | [96] |
| Common and Uncommon Sponges | [98] |
| Maghar’s Leap | [101] |
| The Sea Cow | [120] |
| Two Extremes | [123] |
| A Snow Storm in the Tropics | [130] |
| How Three Men Went to the Moon | [140] |
| Tartar Horses and Horsemen | [153] |
| Two Happy Men | [156] |
| The Wonderful Ash Tree | [162] |
| Work and Water | [174] |
| The Land of the White Elephant | [178] |
| Curiosities of Vegetable Life | [183] |
| Bron and Kruge | [203] |
| The Mirage | [222] |
| Coral | [225] |
| The Great Eastern | [232] |
| Kangaroos | [238] |
| The Story of Polargno | [241] |
| Turtles and Their Eggs | [265] |
| A Few Volcanoes | [269] |
| The Absent-Minded Botanist | [273] |
| Something True About the Moon | [282] |
| A Voyage to the Lower Amazon | [287] |
| The Bedouin Arabs | [298] |
| Fool-hardy Carl Hofer and the Water Lady | [302] |
| Water and Milk from Plants | [311] |
| The Jolly Cabordmen | [317] |
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.