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Published October, 1904

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

TO
MY DEAREST ONE

Lee Everett Joslyn, Jr.

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Entertaining Aunt Florence]1
II.[Indians]8
III.[Billy Goes Swimming]24
IV.[The Steam-tug Billy]35
V.[Antoine LeBrinn]53
VI.[Oranges]67
VII.[Minnavavana's Braves]72
VIII.[Antoine's Bear Stories]82
IX.[Uncle John's "Old Timer"]97
X.[Fishing through the Ice]105
XI.[Christmas Eve]119
PAGE
"'[That's my Aunt Florence's locket],'"
([See page 31])		Frontispiece
"'[Isn't it queer about Indian trails?]'"10
"[Everything he wore was new]"34
"[He held Billy on his knee]"54
"[Watching from behind the north wall of the evergreen fort]"76
"[There was merriment within the evergreen fort]"77
"[Samone]"82
"[Betty ... wrote her pledge]"109
"[Lifting her in his arms]"127