| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Mr. Colburn | [1] |
| II. | The Old Town | [12] |
| III. | Magic | [26] |
| IV. | Napoleon Jones | [40] |
| V. | A Run on the Bank | [57] |
| VI. | Horace | [71] |
| VII. | The Great Day | [82] |
| VIII. | The Green Chest | [98] |
| IX. | White Peacocks | [113] |
| X. | The Flight | [130] |
| XI. | Up Like a Rocket | [147] |
| XII. | Susy | [160] |
| XIII. | Arma Puerumque Cano | [177] |
| XIV. | When My Ship Comes In | [195] |
| XV. | The Lucky-Bug | [209] |
| XVI. | West Injy Lane | [223] |
| XVII. | Their Unaccountable Behavior | [240] |
| XVIII. | The Siege of Auntie Merrill | [256] |
| XIX. | Entertaining Alice | [269] |
| XX. | While the Evil Days Come Not | [282] |
THE BELIEVING YEARS
CHAPTER I
MR. COLBURN
Each boy in the school-room had fixed his mind on two objects: the calendar and the clock. On the former stood out in big black characters
June
20
The clock pointed to the hour of three. Exactly sixty minutes separated us from vacation. It was the day of our dreams,—the last day of school.
We had thought of it, thought of it far back when snow still covered the ground; planned for it, lived in hope of it. To-morrow the tyrannical bell should be silent, and no one could say: "Time to start for school!"