| PAGE | | Preface by Mrs. Andrew Lang | vii | | The Drowned Buccaneer | 1 | | The Perplexity of Zadig | 23 | | The Return of the Dead Wife | 27 | | Young Amazon Snell | 33 | | The Good Sir James | 44 | | Rip van Winkle | 49 | | The Wonderful Basket | 63 | | The Escape of the Galley-slaves | 68 | | The Beaver and the Porcupine | 74 | | An Old-world Ghost | 79 | | The Gentleman Highwayman | 85 | | The Vision of the Pope | 95 | | Growing-up-like-one-who-has-a-grandmother | 97 | | The Handless Brigade | 106 | | The Son of the Wolf Chief | 110 | | Blind Jack of Knaresborough | 116 | | Blind Jack Again | 129 | | The Story of Djun | 139 | | What Became of Owen Parfitt? | 146 | | Blackskin | 151 | | The Pets of Aurore Dupin | 162 | | The Trials of M. Deschartres | 169 | | Aurore at Play | 177 | | How Aurore learned to Ride | 193 | | Land-Otter the Indian | 201 | | The Disinheriting of a Son | 207 | | The Siege of Rhodes | 215 | | The Princess of Babylon | 227 | | The Adventures of Fire-Drill's Son | 249 | | The Strange Story of Elizabeth Canning | 257 | | Mrs. Veal's Ghost | 268 | | The Chief's Daughter | 277 | | The Boyhood of a Painter | 286 | | The Adventures of a Spanish Nun | 295 |
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