NO.
1. [A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS]. By W. D. Howells.
2. SIR JOHN AND THE AMERICAN GIRL. By Lilian Bell.
3. THE NINETEENTH HOLE. By van Tassel Sutphen.
4. TALES OF THE CLOISTER. By Elizabeth G. Jordan.
5. THE PUNISHMENT OF THE STINGY. By G. B. Grinnell.
6. [OVER THE PLUM-PUDDING]. By John Kendrick Bangs. (In Press.)

All in dainty uniform bindings, onyx stamped in gold, uncut edges and gilt tops. Each volume contains a tinted portrait of the author. Price $1 15 net, each.

NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. [[v]]

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Illustrations

[“THEN THEY WENT SEAWARD”]Frontispiece
[“HE SAW A BALD-HEADED EAGLE”]Facing p. 8
[“THE BIRD CAME DOWN”]10
[“FIVE TIMES HE CIRCLED AROUND THEM”]12
[“THERE WAS NO BOY THERE, ONLY A PILE OF BONES”]38
[“ONLY BONES LAY THERE”]40
[“ITS HEAD WAS SO HEAVY THAT IT THREW IT DOWN”]42
[THE STICK GAME]50
[SWINGING THE GIRL TO CALL THE BUFFALO]52
[COYOTE HOLDS A COUNCIL OF WAR]54
[“ ‘I CAN TELL WHICH STICK IS THE NEARER’ ”]58
[“SNORTED ‘WHOOF,’ AND BLEW RED DUST FROM HIS NOSTRILS”]92
[“THEY COULD NOT HURT HIM”]100
[THE CONFERENCE IN THE LODGE]106
[“SU-YE-SAI-PI CLUNG TO HIM”]226
[“ ‘OH, LITTLE WOLF,’ SHE CRIED”] 230

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The Stories and the Story-Tellers

The stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habit—some with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and are at home on the water; and others with inhabitants of the high plains, where the air is pure and dry, and the summer sun is rarely hidden by clouds.