The St. Nicholas Anthology, Volume 1Henry Steele Commager Illustrations: "Ring a ring o' roses," "Bye, Baby Bunting," "Little people's market," Rain, rain, go away!" Hark, hark, the dogs do bark!" Jack Sprat and his wife, "There was an old woman who lived under a hill" / Arthur Rackham -- Thanksgiving snow-shoes / Ben Ames Williams -- Grandiloquent goat / Carolyn Wells -- "Brin" / Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell -- Casperl / H.C. Bunner -- Among the buffaloes / Noah Brooks -- Dickey boy / Mary E. Wilkins -- Great speculation / Rossiter Johnson -- Runaway train / F. Lovell Coombs -- Snaggle-tooth of Sunken Lake / David M. Newell -- Wrong coat / Rose Terry Cooke -- Richard Carr's baby / Richard H. Davis -- Chronicles of the Molbos -- Fo'c'sle and wigwam / Henry Morton Robinson -- Funny little school / Ruth McInery Stuart -- Malschick / Leon W. Dean -- More than conquerors / Ariadne Gilbert -- "As we forgive those" / T. Morris Longstreth -- Where the buffaloes begin / Olaf Baker -- Crocodile / Oliver Herford -- My grandmother's grandmother's Christmas candle / Hezekiah Butterworth -- To repel boarders / Jack London -- Three brass pennies / Augusta Huiell Seaman -- Puzzled / Carolyn Wells -- With the black prince / William O. Stoddard -- Sara Crewe; or, What happened at Miss Minchin's / Francis Hodgson Burnett -- Old-fashioned Thanksgiving / Louisa M. Alcott -- Grizel Cochrane's ride / Elia W. Peattie -- Crow-child / Mary Mapes Dodge -- Affair of the "Sandpiper" / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Freddy Low takes the wheel / Cornelius Brett Boocock -- Not so black as his feathers / Dallas Lore Sharp -- Find / Orville W. Mosher, Jr. -- Sensitive cat / Alice Brown -- Young Abel Yancey / Archibald Rutledge -- Christmas every day / W.D. Howells -- Major's big-talk stories / F. Blake Crofton -- Spelling spat / Nancy Byrd Turner -- Friends / E. Vincent Millay -- Diary of a dragon / Morris G. Bishop -- My fairy-book prince / Margaret Widdemer -- Patriot / Robert Hillyer. |
Contents
THE PETERKINS CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY Lucretia P Hale | 12 |
DADDY JAKE THE RUNAWAY Joel Chandler Harris | 34 |
BUFFALO HUNTING Theodore Roosevelt | 57 |
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