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Brother Rabbit’s CradleJoel Chandler Harris[7]
The Little Baxters Go MarketingTudor Jenks[18]
A Story of Decoration Day for the Little Children of To-dayElizabeth Harrison[23]
The Taxes of MiddlebrookRay Stannard Baker[30]
The Cure of FearNorman Duncan[43]
A Christmas AdventureJ. E. Chamberlin[55]
Chased by the TrailJack London[66]
Big Timber BeaconJohn L. Mathews[79]
How Hilda Got a SchoolLelia Munsell[90]
The Imp and the DrumJosephine D. Bacon[99]
The Second StringJames B. Connolly[116]
Holding the PipeAlbert W. Tolman[128]
The Travelling DollEvelyn Snead Barnett[137]
The Doll DoctorE. V. Lucas[152]
The Idea that Went AstrayPauline C. Bouvé[168]
Gravity GreggIsaac Ogden Rankin[171]
JonnasenDallas Lore Sharp[179]
In the OvenRichard W. Child[186]
On a Slide-BoardRobert Barnes[192]
The Call of the SeaFrederick Palmer[201]
On a Tight RopeAlbert W. Tolman[213]
Down the InclineCharles Newton Hood[220]
The Cost of LovingFrederick O. Bartlett[225]
LadybirdEdith Barnard[241]
The Drasnoe Pipe-LineArthur Stanwood Pier[255]
Manuk Del MonteRowland Thomas[269]
The Man Without a CountryEdward Everett Hale[279]
The ForemanStewart E. White[315]
The Gray CollieGeorgia W. Pangborn[328]
The Fore-Room RugKate Douglas Wiggin[340]
Cressy’s New-Year’s RentAlbert Lee[359]
Mr. O’Leary’s Second LoveCharles Lever[370]
The Rose and the RingWilliam M. Thackeray[389]
I.Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast[393]
II.How King Valoroso Got the Crown, and Prince Giglio Went Without[397]
III.Tells Who the Fairy Blackstick Was, and Who Were Ever So Many Grand Personages Besides[402]
IV.How Blackstick Was Not Asked to the Princess Angelica’s Christening[407]
V.How Princess Angelica Took a Little Maid[410]
VI.How Prince Giglio Behaved Himself[415]
VII.How Giglio and Angelica Had a Quarrel[423]
VIII.How Gruffanuff Picked the Fairy Ring Up, and Prince Bulbo Came to Court[429]
IX.How Betsinda Got the Warming-Pan[436]
X.How King Valoroso Was in a Dreadful Passion[443]
XI.What Gruffanuff Did to Giglio and Betsinda[447]
XII.How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her[456]
XIII.How Queen Rosalba Came to the Castle of the Bold Count Hogginarmo[462]
XIV.What Became of Giglio[466]
XV.We Return to Rosalba[480]
XVI.How Hedzoff Rode Back Again to King Giglio[488]
XVII.How a Tremendous Battle Took Place, and Who Won It[493]
XVIII.How They All Journeyed Back to the Capital[503]
XIX.And Now We Come to the Last Scene in the Pantomime[509]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[There was no going Home for him, even to a prison]
The Man Without a Country
Frontispiece illustration in color from the painting by Nella F. Binckley
[A Gush of water followed, burying the sled and washing the dogs from their feet]
Chased by the Trail
From the drawing by George Giguère
[“I’m not your doctor. I’m a doll’s doctor.”]
The Doll Doctor
From the drawing by Carton Moorepark
[“Three of us were riding down the Slope of the great, grassy Hills”]
Manuk Del Monte
From the drawing by W. H. D. Koerner
[“Does Mr. Cressy live here?”]
Cressy’s New-Year’s Rent
From the drawing by Edwin J. Meeker
[Bulbo was brought in Chains, looking very uncomfortable]
The Rose and the Ring
From the drawing by Wm. Makepeace Thackeray
[And the gloomy procession marched on]
The Rose and the Ring
From the drawing by J. H. Tinker

BROTHER RABBIT’S CRADLE

By Joel Chandler Harris

“I wish you’d tell me what you tote a hankcher fer,” remarked Uncle Remus, after he had reflected over the matter a little while.