PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. THE WALKING-STICK WALKS.

CHAPTER II. LONG-HEADED WILLIE.

CHAPTER III. THE WALKING-STICK A TALKING STICK.

CHAPTER IV. MR. BLAKE AGREES WITH THE WALKING-STICK.

CHAPTER V. THE FATHER PREACHES AND THE SON PRACTICES.

CHAPTER VI. SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS.

CHAPTER VII. THE WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS.

CHAPTER VIII. SHARPS AND BETWEENS.

CHAPTER IX. THE ANGEL STAYS THE HAND.

CHAPTER X. TOMMY PUFFER.

CHAPTER XI. AN ODD PARTY.

MR. BLAKE’S
Walking-Stick:

A Christmas Story for Boys and Girls.

By EDWARD EGGLESTON,

AUTHOR OF
“THE ROUND TABLE STORIES,” “THE CHICKEN LITTLE STORIES,”
“STORIES TOLD ON A CELLAR DOOR,” ETC.

CHICAGO:
ADAMS, BLACKMER, & LYON PUBLISHING CO.
1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870,
By ADAMS, BLACKMER, & LYON PUBLISHING COMPANY,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

TO OUR
Little Silverhair
Who used to listen to My Stories;
BUT WHO IS NOW
Listening to the Christmas Stories of the Angels,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED.