Anna Cogswell Tyler.
1920


CONTENTS

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THE CONVENT FREE FROM CARE[3]
Jean de Bosschere
"WHAT THE GOOD-MAN DOES IS SURE TO BE RIGHT!"[7]
Hans Christian Andersen
WHERE TO LAY THE BLAME[17]
Howard Pyle
THE WINDS, THE BIRDS, AND THE TELEGRAPH WIRES[31]
Rev. Jay T. Stocking
KATCHA AND THE DEVIL[45]
Parker Fillmore
THE WHITE DOGS OF ARRAN[59]
Cornelia Meigs
WIND AN' WAVE AN' WANDHERIN' FLAME[81]
Aldis Dunbar
THE KING, THE QUEEN, AND THE BEE[95]
Aunt Naomi
THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END[107]
Joseph Jacobs
WINGS[115]
Fedor Sologub
CHRISTMAS STORIES
THE CHRISTMAS CUCKOO[123]
Frances Browne
THE EMPEROR'S VISION[155]
Selma Lagerlof
THE VOYAGE OF THE WEE RED CAP[167]
Ruth Sawyer Durand
GREEK LEGENDS
THE CURSE OF ECHO[183]
Elsie Finnimore Buckley
HOW THE ASS BECAME A MAN AGAIN[195]
Andrew Lang
HOW ALEXANDER THE KING GOT THE WATER OF LIFE[213]
Julia Dragoumis
AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS
THE FIRST CORN[223]
George Bird Grinnell
WAUKEWA'S EAGLE[233]
James Buckham
HALLOWE'EN AND MYSTERY STORIES
THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF[245]
Arthur Quiller-Couch
HOW JAN BREWER WAS PISKEY-LADEN[277]
Enys Tregarthen
MY GRANDFATHER HENDRY WATTY[285]
Arthur Quiller-Couch
CHILDE ROWLAND[297]
Joseph Jacobs
TAM O' SHANTER[309]
Robert Burns (Prose Version by Anna Cogswell Tyler)
THE BOGGART[325]
Ernest Rhys


THE CONVENT FREE FROM CARE

THE CONVENT FREE FROM CARE[1]

ONCE when the Emperor Charles V was traveling in the country, he saw a convent, and in passing by a little door he read this strange inscription: