BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


CONTENTS

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Dick Sands, Convict[1]
A Kentucky Cinderella[35]
A Waterlogged Town[65]
The Boy in the Cloth Cap[71]
Between Showers in Dort[82]
One of Bob's Tramps[113]
According to the Law[124]
"Never had no Sleep"[162]
The Man with the Empty Sleeve[169]
"Tincter ov Iron"[200]
"Five Meals for a Dollar"[206]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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"Miss Nannie gib Marse Tom Boling her han'" (page 63)[Frontispiece]
Aunt Chloe[36]
"Her head crammed full of hifalutin' notions"[66]
Through streets embowered in trees[82]
The gossips lean in the doorways[88]
Drenched leaves quivering[94]
An ancient Groote Kerk[108]
"Forty-two cents"[216]