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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| THE PHANTOMS OF THE FOOT-BRIDGE | [1] |
| HIS "DAY IN COURT" | [61] |
| 'WAY DOWN IN LONESOME COVE | [131] |
| THE MOONSHINERS AT HOHO-HEBEE FALLS | [183] |
| THE RIDDLE OF THE ROCKS | [289] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| "'WARN'T YOU-UNS APOLOGIZIN' TER ME FUR NOT BEIN' A NEPHEW?'" | [Frontispiece] | |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE FOOT-BRIDGE | Facing p. | [12] |
| OLD JOEL QUIMBEY | " | [66] |
| "'WHY'N'T YE GIN DAD THEM MESSAGES?'" | " | [102] |
| "SHE FLUNG HER APRON OVER HER HEAD" | " | [114] |
| "HE STOLE NOISELESSLY IN THE SOFT SNOW" | " | [124] |
| OLD QUIMBEY AND HIS GRANDSON | " | [128] |
| "YET THIS WAS CHRISTMAS EVE" | " | [176] |
| "HE HAD HAD AN ACTIVE DAY, INDUCING A KEEN THIRST" | " | [214] |
| "'LOOK OUT! SOMEBODY'S THAR!'" | " | [284] |
| "SHE SMILED UPON THE BABY" | " | [300] |
| THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP | " | [312] |
| "THE TABLES OF THE LAW" | " | [322] |
| "'WHAT WORD DID HE SEND TER—ME?'" | " | [330] |
THE PHANTOMS OF THE FOOT-BRIDGE
Across the narrow gorge the little foot-bridge stretched—a brace of logs, the upper surface hewn, and a slight hand-rail formed of a cedar pole. A flimsy structure, one might think, looking down at the dark and rocky depths beneath, through which flowed the mountain stream, swift and strong, but it was doubtless substantial enough for all ordinary usage, and certainly sufficient for the imponderable and elusive travellers who by common report frequented it.
"We ain't likely ter meet nobody. Few folks kem this way nowadays, 'thout it air jes' ter ford the creek down along hyar a piece, sence harnts an' sech onlikely critters hev been viewed a-crossin' the foot-bredge. An' it hev got the name o' bein' toler'ble onlucky, too," said Roxby.