LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS[ They called to me as a boy ……… Frontispiece ][ "Welcome home—thrice welcome!" ][ Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost ][ "Well, old chap!" ][ Josiah Nummler ][ He did not stop to hear my answer ][ Swearing terrible oaths that he will never return ][ No answer came from the floor above ][ The tiger story ][ He had a last look at Black Log ][ "He pumped me dry" ][ "Nanny is likely to get one of her religious spells and quit work" ][ I was back in my prison ][ "'At my sover-sover-yne's will'" ][ Perry Thomas stands confronting the English warrior ][ "You'll begin to think you ain't there at all" ][ I saw a girl on the store porch ][ Aaron Kallaberger ][ Leander ][ "Her name was Pinky Binn, a dotter of the house of Binn, the Binns of Turkey Walley" ][ William had felt the hand of "Doogulus" ][ "Aren't you coming?" young Colonel seemed to say ][ Sat little Colonel, wailing ][ The main thing was proper nursing ][ Well, ain't he tasty ][ "But there are no ghosts," I argued ][ "Of course it hurts me a bit here" ][ "An seein' a light in the room, I looked in" ][ Tip Pulsifer leaned on my gate ][ The horse went down ][ "And I'm his widder" ][ Then Tim came ][ Old Captain ][ When we three sit by the fire ]