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 ]