CONTENTS

PAGE
[Away][3]
[The Reciprocity of Smiles][5]
[A Domestic Ripple][7]
[The Adams’s Boys][9]
[Billy Peeble’s Christmas][11]
[The Way He Used to Do][16]
[A Boy’s Vacation Time][18]
[A Boy’s Choice][20]
[A Discouraged Kindergartner][22]
[The Delusion of Ghosts][24]
[A Story of Self-Sacrifice][25]
[The Lost Child][28]
[Doughnutting Time][30]
[A Modern Miracle][32]
[Nervoustown][34]
[Song of Summer Days][36]
[What Mother Doesn’t Know][37]
[So Lonesome Now][39]
[A Little Love Story][41]
[On a Noiseless Fourth][43]
[Conscious Ignorance][45]
[The Playtime of Bachelor Bill][47]
[How Henry Blake Knows][49]
[The Land of Blow Bubbles][50]
[The Gingercake Man][52]
[Lonesome][54]
[The Garden of Play][57]
[We Ain’t Scared of Pa][59]
[A Pearl of Price][61]
[Dear Little, Queer Little Man][63]
[Girl of Mine][65]
[Chums][67]
[The Lost Boy][69]
[Lines to a Baby Girl][71]
[Little Mischefuss][73]
[The Travels of Mortimer Brown][75]
[Adventurers Three][77]
[When They Love You So][79]
[Somebody Did][81]
[The Waders][83]
[The Prisoned Pupil][85]
[A Prayer for Jimmy Banks][87]
[A Child’s Christmas Prayer][89]
[Henry Blake’s Chum][91]
[Once Upon a Time][93]
[The Way to School][95]
[A Present for Little Boy Blue][97]
[The Evolution of an Adoption][99]
[Some Girls that Mamma Knew][101]
[Gone][103]
[The Neighbor’s Boys][104]
[A Quiet Afternoon][106]
[The Ownerless Toys][108]
[The Stranger][110]
[In Vacation Time][112]
[Bereaved][114]
[Two Little Maids][117]
[A New Christmas Carol][118]
[The Reconciliation of Pa][120]
[A World without Care][122]
[Right After School][124]
[A Plea for Old Friends][127]
[The Boyville Cadets][129]
[A Little Boy I Know][132]
[Asleep at the Circus][135]
[The Barriers][137]
[The Plaint of the New Doll][139]
[A Child’s Almanac][141]
[The Loser][143]
[Back to School][146]
[Disenchantments][148]
[A Rainy Night][150]
[Kitchen Miracles][152]
[Jim Brady’s Big Brother][154]
[The Scapegoat][156]
[A Tragedy of Center Field][158]
[In Swimming][161]
[An Unusual Chum][163]
[And Just Then][164]
[Afterwards][167]
[Circus Day][168]
[The Tour of a Smile][170]
[When Grandpa Plays][172]
[The Parted Ways][175]
[A Message Home][177]
[Lullaby][180]
[Disguising Toil][182]
[Little Girl with the Curls][185]
[My Wonderful Dad][187]
[Remembrances, Bill][190]
[The Bereavement][192]
[In Childhood Time][194]
[Don’t][196]
[Extinguished][198]
[The Uncheered Hero][199]
[Old Hallowe’en Friends][201]
[A Refuge in Distress][203]
[The Lost Heart][205]
[Verses of a Little Child][208]
[Golden Days in Slowville][210]
[The Heart of a Child][213]
[The Strenuous Life][214]
[A Song of Motherhood][216]
[Youth][218]
[After the Years][220]
[A Verse to Memory][222]
[Lest I Forget][224]
[Echo of a Song][226]
[Lovers’ Lane][228]
[Daddy Knows][230]
[To Children at the Hearth][232]
[A Toast to the Small Boy][234]
[An Adventurous Day][236]
[Poem of the Foragers][238]

ILLUSTRATIONS
by Reginald Birch

[Song of Summer Days][Frontispiece]
[The Adams’s Boys][facing page 10]
[Billy Peeble’s Christmas][14]
[A Modern Miracle][32]
[A Little Love Story][42]
[The Gingercake Man][52]
[The Waders][84]
[A Prayer for Jimmy Banks][88]
[Once Upon A Time][94]
[The Neighbor’s Boys][104]
[Asleep at the Circus][136]
[In Swimming][162]
[The Parted Ways][176]
[Lullaby][180]
[Verses of a Little Child][208]
[Lover’s Lane][228]