LEE & SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]PAGE.
[Joe's Grand Discovery][ 7]
[CHAPTER II.]
[Planning in the Twilight] [ 22]
[CHAPTER III.]
[A Chance for Flossy] [ 36]
[CHAPTER IV.]
[The Identical Shoe] [ 52]
[CHAPTER V.]
[Good Luck for Joe] [ 68]
[CHAPTER VI.]
[Fortunes and Misfortunes] [ 84]
[CHAPTER VII.]
[The Old Tumbler, after All] [ 103]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
[Florence in State] [ 120]
[CHAPTER IX.]
[Fourth of July] [ 137]
[CHAPTER X.]
[Which should she choose?] [ 154]
[CHAPTER XI.]
[Out of the Old Home-Nest] [ 172]
[CHAPTER XII.]
[Joe's Fortune] [ 191]
[CHAPTER XIII.]
[From Gray Skies to Blue] [ 209]
[CHAPTER XIV.]
[A Flower-Garden Indoors] [ 225]
[CHAPTER XV.]
[How Charlie ran away] [ 244]
[CHAPTER XVI.]
[Almost discouraged] [ 262]
[CHAPTER XVII.]
[Lost at Sea] [ 282]
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
[A Song in the Night] [ 299]
[CHAPTER XIX.]
[In the Old Home-Nest again] [ 317]
[CHAPTER XX.]
[Wherein the Old Shoe becomes crowded] [ 337]
[CHAPTER XXI.]
[How the Dreams came True] [ 352]
[CHAPTER XXII.]
[Christmastide] [ 366]

[THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.]


[CHAPTER I.]

JOE'S GRAND DISCOVERY.

Hal sat trotting Dot on his knee,—poor little weazen-faced Dot, who was just getting over the dregs of the measles, and cross accordingly. By way of accompaniment he sang all the Mother Goose melodies that he could remember. At last he came to,—