[Q] From Harper’s Round Table, July 9, 1895.

[R] From “Around the Hub,� copyright, 1881, by Samuel Adams Drake. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown & Company.

[S] From “The Spy.�

[T] From Wide Awake, July, 1886.

[U] From the Youth’s Companion, June 11, 1908.

[V] From “Stories of the War for Independence.�

[W] From the Youth’s Companion, September 6, 1900.

[X] From the Youth’s Companion, November 22, 1900.

[Y] From “Historic Boyhoods,� copyright, 1900, by George W. Jacobs & Company.

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