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Title: The Singing Mouse Stories

Author: Emerson Hough

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Language: English

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THE SINGING MOUSE STORIES

by

EMERSON HOUGH

Author of The Purchase Price, 54-40 or Fight, Etc.

With Decorations by Mayo Bunker

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

New York
Hurst & Company
Publishers

Copyright 1910
by Emerson Hough

[Illustration]

CONTENTS

The Land of the Singing Mouse _Page_ 11
The Burden of a Song 19
The Little River 31
What the Waters Said 41
Lake Belle-Marie 55
The Skull and the Rose 67
The Man of the Mountain 77
At the Place of the Oaks 83
The Birth of the Hours 99
The Stone That Had No Thought 107
The Tear and the Smile 113
How the Mountains Ate Up the Plains 123
The Savage and Its Heart 131
The Beast Terrible 137
The Passing of Men 155
The House of Truth 167
Where the