uts, school stories,
stories of the sea and "wild west" stories, detective and mystery
stories; most of all, though, a goodly number of humorous stories, and I
am willing to hazard the guess there will be no regrets on the part of
readers because the selections happen to abound in stories of the latter
sort.

How about it, boys?

CONTENTS

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I. THE GREAT BIG MAN _Owen Johnson_ 1

II. A TWILIGHT ADVENTURE _Melville Davisson Post_ 27

III. TAD SHELDON, SECOND CLASS SCOUT _John Fleming Wilson_ 45

IV. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE _Arthur Conan Doyle_ 71

V. THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF _O. Henry_ 108

VI. THE HONK-HONK BREED _Stewart Edward White_ 125

VII. THE DEVIL-FISH _Norman Duncan_ 140

VIII. THE JUMPING FROG _Mark Twain_ 155

IX. BINGISM _Booth Tarkington_ 165

X. CONCHO CURLY AT THE OP'RA _Edward Beecher Bronson_ 191

XI. THE LIE _Hermann Hagedorn_ 206

XII. STORY OF THE BANDBOX _Robert Louis Stevenson_ 229

XIII. THE HERO AND THE COWBOY _Joseph C. Lincoln_ 265

XIV. THE DOLLAR _Morgan Robertson_ 289

XV. THE MASCOT OF "TROOP 1" _Stephen Chalmers_ 315

XVI. THE LION'S SMILE _Thomas W. Hanshew_ 330

XVII. THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF _A. T. Quiller-Couch_ 361

XVIII. THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN _Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton_ 386

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Page

The butcher looked down at the funny face and saw the
kindly motive under the exaggerated bluffness _Frontispiece_

"Some of the men stood about; behind them two men sat on
their horses, their elbows strapped to their bodies" 32

"I went to leeward and there found me bould Tad launchin'
the little dingy" 64

The black scout jumps on Bill's back and digs his heels in
his side 120

"'Tis the devil-fish!" screamed Bobby 140

"But before he could lite on