"The joyful pathos is so true that it chokes you all up but leaves you happy, and one likes to be left happy."

"An hour of amusement, a series of laughs from the heart out and a pleasant vista backward to the days of childhood will come to the reader of 'The Hickory Limb.'"

Cincinnati Tribune.

JOHN LANE COMPANY
NEW YORK

"What's the matter, Margery?"
"Nothing. I'm just waiting."

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