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Copyright, 1899,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped October, 1899. Reprinted November, 1899; June, 1901.

To Hilda’s Child

CONTENTS

[The Tutor]Frontispiece
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[A Serious Question]1
[Two Old Kings]2
[A Day Dream]5
[Our Club]7
[Puzzled]9
[An Intercepted Valentine]11
[A Long-Felt Want]13
[The Musical Carp]14
[The Intelligent Hen]15
[The Happy Hyena]17
[A Great Lady]18
[Opulent Ollie]20
[The Two Bears]21
[The Macaroni Man]24
[The 4.04 Train]29
[A Valuable Gift]30
[The Grandiloquent Goat]32
[How the Cat was belled]33
[Triangular Tommy]40
[A Modern Invention]45
[An April Joke]46
[An Alice Alphabet]48
[The Funny Kittens]57
[The Strike of the Fireworks]60
[The Arch Armadillo]63
[A Dream Lesson]64
[The Rivals]68
[The New Cup]70
[A Photographic Failure]71
[Christmas Gifts]73
[Young America]74
[A Bicycle built for Two]75
[Dorothy’s Opinion]77
[Roly Poly Roy]79
[My Barometer]85
[The Butter Betty bought]86
[A Marvel]87
[An Alphabet Zoo]88
[Found Wanting]94
[A Tragic Tale of Tea]96
[The Erratic Rat]97
[The Two Friends]99
[The Smiling Shark]102
[The Mercury’s Plaint]103
[The Pirate Poodle]105
[An Old Love]107
[Bobby’s Pocket]109
[The Instructiphone]112
[The Lay of the Lady Lorraine]115