W. C.


CONTENTS.

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WEALTH[15]
Including
The Lovely Young Man[28]
If I'd a Million Millions[35]
Farmer Stebbins on Rollers[40]
WANT[46]
Including
That Swamp of Death[53]
A Sewing-Girl's Diary[64]
FIRE[75]
Including
When Prometheus Stole the Flame[77]
Flash: The Fireman's Story[79]
How we Fought the Fire[84]
"You will Tell me Where is Conrad?"[90]
WATER[93]
Including
The Dead Stowaway[97]
The Wedding of the Towns[102]
Farmer Stebbins at Ocean Grove[107]
VICE[113]
Including
The Boy-convict's Story[115]
Farmer Stebbins on the Bowery[119]
Farmer Stebbins Ahead[124]
The Slugging-match[130]
VIRTUE[132]
Including
More Ways than One[136]
The March of the Children[141]
TRAVEL[143]
Including
Her Tour[144]
At the Summit of the Washington Monument[148]
The Silent Wheel[155]
Farmer and Wheel; or, The New Lochinvar[157]
Only a Box[166]
HOME[170]
Including
Let the Cloth be White[172]


ILLUSTRATIONS.

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"These are the spires that were gleaming"[Frontispiece.]
"I saw tall derricks by the hundred rise"[21]
"I reached my hand down for it and it stopped"[29]
"When all to once the wheels departed suddenly above, an' took along my heels"[43]
Farmer Stebbins on Rollers[45]
"Yes, it's straight and true, good preacher, every word that you have said"[51]
"Choked and strangled by the foul breath of the chimneys over there"[54]
"Oh, the air is pure and wholesome where some babies coo and rest, and they trim
them out with ribbons, and they feed them with the best"[55]
"Weary old man with the snow-drifted hair, not by your fault are you suffering there"[59]
"Is't the same girl that stood, one night, there in the wide hall's thrilling light?"[65]
"And hateful hunger has come in"[69]
"He begged that horse's pardon upon his bended knees"[80]
"Away he rushed like a cyclone for the head o' 'Number Three'"[82]
"Laid down in his harness"[83]
How we Fought the Fire[87]
"Battered and bruised, forever abused, he lay by the moaning sea"[99]
"Miss Sunnyhopes she waded out"[108]
"Two inland noodles, for our first acquaintance with the sea"[109]
"A-floating on her dainty back"[110]
"I tried to kick this 'lovely wave'"[110]
"Heels over head—all in a bunch!"[111]
"We voted that we'd had enough"[111]
"To make four hundred dollars clear, an' help the children too"[121]
"We come 'thin part of one of it"[123]
"They 'put their heads together' in a new an' painful way"[127]
"He makes himself a bigger fool than all the fools he makes"[129]
The Salvation Army[140]
The March of the Children[141]
From the Monument[149]
"And he stood there, like a colonel, with her trembling on his arm"[159]
Chasing the Bicycle[163]
"Only a box, secure and strong, rough and wooden, and six feet long"[167]
"And carry back, from out our plenteous store, enough to keep himself a fortnight
more"[172]
"The hungry city children are coming here to-night"[173]
"He heard its soft tones through the cottages creep, from fond mothers singing their
babies to sleep"[177]