BOSTON
D LOTHROP COMPANY
1893
COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY
D. LOTHROP COMPANY.

SHORT STORY

CONTENTS.

Page
[THE POT OF GOLD] [11]
[THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS] [25]
[PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN.] [41]
I. [THE PRINCESS ROSETTA] [41]
II. [THE POP-CORN MAN] [51]
[THE CHRISTMAS MONKS] [69]
[THE PUMPKIN GIANT] [98]
[THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE] [115]
[DILL] [135]
[THE SILVER HEN] [154]
[TOBY] [176]
[THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL] [198]
[THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE] [219]
[A PLAIN CASE] [237]
[A STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE] [261]
[THE BOUND GIRL] [273]
[DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL] [290]
[THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER] [306]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[Flax looks into the Pot of Gold] [Frontis.]
[The settle and the kettle] [14]
[Drusilla and her gold-horned cow] [27]
[A Knight of the Golden Bee] [45]
[The princess was not in the basket!] [51]
[The bee guards patrolled the city] [53]
["You!" cried the baron scornfully] [61]
[Both the king and queen were obliged to pop] [64]
[Going into the chapel] [71]
[The boys read the notice] [77]
[The prince and Peter are examined by the monks] [81]
[The boys at work in the convent garden] [87]
[The prince runs away] [93]
[He picked up an enormous young Plantagenet and threw it at him] [104]
[They were all over the field] [106]
[Then the king knighted him on the spot] [111]
[There never was anything like the fun at the mayor's Christmas ball] [119]
[Their parents stared in great distress] [122]
["I will go and tend my geese!"] [125]
[She sang it beautifully] [129]
[A strange sad state of things] [141]
[Nan returns with the umbrellas] [145]
[Such frantic efforts to get away] [148]
[Dame Elizabeth stared with astonishment] [150]
[The count thinks himself insulted] [152]
[They fairly danced and flourished their heels.] [153]
[The snow was quite deep] [155]
[Two by two] [157]
[The snow man's house] [163]
[Puss-in-the-corner] [164]
[To the rescue] [169]
["I'll put this right in your face and—melt you!"] [173]
[Letitia stood before uncle Jack] [178]
[School children in Pokonoket] [181]
[Pokonoket in stormy weather] [185]
[Toby and the crazy loon] [188]
[Toby ran till he was out of breath] [193]
[The patchwork woman] [200]
[The patchwork girl] [202]
[Julia was arrested on Christmas Day] [205]
[Julia entertains the ambassador through the keyhole] [211]
[The grandmothers enjoy the Chinese toys] [215]
["Six"—she began feebly] [221]
["What!" said Squire Bean suddenly] [223]
[Little Patience obeys the squire's summons] [233]
[Watching for the coach][239]
["Just look here!" said Willy's sweet voice] [249]
[The little stranger] [263]
[She almost fainted from cold and exhaustion] [301]
[A conveyance is found] [321]