A. L.

1889.


CONTENTS

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[Preface by Mrs. Andrew Lang]vii
[The Drowned Buccaneer]1
[The Perplexity of Zadig]23
[The Return of the Dead Wife]27
[Young Amazon Snell]33
[The Good Sir James]44
[Rip van Winkle]49
[The Wonderful Basket]63
[The Escape of the Galley-slaves]68
[The Beaver and the Porcupine]74
[An Old-world Ghost]79
[The Gentleman Highwayman]85
[The Vision of the Pope]95
[Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother]97
[The Handless Brigade]106
[The Son of the Wolf Chief]110
[Blind Jack of Knaresborough]116
[Blind Jack Again]129
[The Story of Djun]139
[What Became of Owen Parfitt?]146
[Blackskin]151
[The Pets of Aurore Dupin]162
[The Trials of M. Deschartres]169
[Aurore at Play]177
[How Aurore learned to Ride]193
[Land-Otter the Indian]201
[The Disinheriting of a Son]207
[The Siege of Rhodes]215
[The Princess of Babylon]227
[The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son]249
[The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning]257
[Mrs. Veal's Ghost]268
[The Chief's Daughter]277
[The Boyhood of a Painter]286
[The Adventures of a Spanish Nun]295

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Andrew Lang, Rembrandt-gravure from a Photograph] Frontispiece

COLOURED PLATES
To face page
[Father Redcap found in the Cellar] 12
[The King and Queen rejoice when their Pets return] 24
[How the Girls found Mountain Dweller] 64
[How the Boy shot the White Bear] 100
[Blind Jack plays his Fiddle at the Assembly Balls] 120
[Djun's Magic in the House of the Chief] 142
[Besides the White Rabbit Aurore greatly admired General Murat] 166
[Aurore sets free the Captive Birds at the Altar of Corambé] 180
[Discovering the Traitor] 221
[The Princess of Babylon and the Phoenix] 238
[The Girl Bathed him every Morning in the Pool] 250
[Leonardo frightens his Father with the Monster painted on the Shield] 290
FULL-PAGE PLATES
[Wolfert finds a Stranger at the Inn] 4
[The Face of the Drowned Buccaneer] 18
[The Tlingit Chief finds his Wife is ill] 28
[The Sailors drink the Health of Amazon Snell] 40
[Rip finds the Dwarfs playing Ninepins] 51
[Athenodorus confronts the Spectre] 80
[Maclean and Plunket stop Lord Eglinton's Carriage] 92
[The Highlanders demand the Captain's Horse for the Prince] 131
['I am Strength,' said he, 'and I am going to help you'] 152
[How the Chief's Death was avenged] 155
[Aurore rescued by Deschartres from a Watery Grave] 198
[The Dead Son helps his Parents] 202
['Here!' said a Voice] 212
[How the Stranger on the Unicorn arrived on the Scene] 228
[Formosante's Drug works] 242
['What beautiful birds! I should like to marry one of them!'] 280
[Catalina rescued by the young Officer] 298
[Had it not been for the Interference of the Bishop himself, it would have gone hardly with Catalina] 308

THE DROWNED BUCCANEER