Volume IX

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London

Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY


CONTENTS

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Ballade of Ping-Pong, AAlden Charles Noble[1690]
Boat that Ain't, TheWallace Irwin[1764]
Budge and ToddieJohn Habberton[1692]
Cavalier's Valentine, AClinton Scollard[1782]
Conscientious Curate and the
Beauteous Ballet Girl, TheWilliam Russell Rose[1756]
Country School, TheAnonymous[1734]
Evan Anderson's Poker PartyBenjamin Stevenson[1737]
Experiences of Gentle Jane, TheCarolyn Wells[1797]
Few Reflections, ABill Arp[1799]
Great Celebrator, ABill Nye[1784]
Gusher, TheCharles Battell Loomis[1656]
He Wanted to KnowSam Walter Foss[1794]
Hoss, TheJames Whitcomb Riley[1759]
How I Spoke the WordFrank L. Stanton[1725]
How Jimaboy Found HimselfFrancis Lynde[1765]
How the Money GoesJohn G. Saxe[1780]
"Hullo!"Sam Walter Foss[1706]
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, TheJames Whitcomb Riley[1669]
Millionaires, TheMax Adeler[1675]
Mystery of Gilgal, TheHay[1654]
Natural PhilosophyWilliam Henry Drummond[1722]
Nine Little Goblins, TheJames Whitcomb Riley[1635]
Old-Fashioned Choir, TheBenjamin F. Taylor[1790]
Our Polite ParentsCarolyn Wells[1688]
Our Very WishesHarriet Prescott Spofford[1637]
Reflective Retrospect, AJohn G. Saxe[1703]
Rule of Three, AWallace Rice[1779]
Runaway Toys, TheFrank L. Stanton[1671]
Soldier, Rest!Robert J. Burdette[1796]
Tale of the Tangled Telegram, TheWilbur D. Nesbit[1709]
Threnody, AGeorge Thomas Lanigan[1754]
Tim Flannigan's MistakeWallace Bruce Amsbary[1673]
University Intelligence Office, TheJohn Kendrick Bangs[1727]
Warrior, TheEugene Field[1708]
When Doctors DisagreeS. E. Kiser[1762]
When the Little Boy Ran AwayFrank L. Stanton[1792]
Widow Bedott's Visitor, TheFrances M. Whicher[1660]

COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.