With Illustrations

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1920

TO FRED ERNST SCHMIDT
OF MUSCATINE, IOWA THE FAITHFUL COMPANION OF MY BOYHOOD THIS BOOK IS MOST GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

CONTENTS

SWATTY

I. THE BIG RIVER

II. MAMIE'S FATHER

III. THE “DIVORCE”

IV. THE STUMP

V. SCRATCH-CAT

VI. THE CARDINAL'S SIGNET RING

VII. THE HAUNTED HOUSE

VIII. WASTED EFFORT

IX. THE MURDERERS

X. SLIM FINNEGAN

XI. “THIEF! THIEF!”

XII. THE RED AVENGERS

XIII. THE ICE GOES OUT

XIV. HERB BESTIRS