Sam Walter Foss 1706
Lugubrious Whing-Whang, The James Whitcomb Riley 1669
Millionaires, The Max Adeler 1675
Mystery of Gilgal, The Hay 1654
Natural Philosophy William Henry Drummond 1722
Nine Little Goblins, The James Whitcomb Riley 1635
Old-Fashioned Choir, The Benjamin F. Taylor 1790
Our Polite Parents Carolyn Wells 1688
Our Very Wishes Harriet Prescott Spofford 1637
Reflective Retrospect, A John G. Saxe 1703
Rule of Three, A Wallace Rice 1779
Runaway Toys, The Frank L. Stanton 1671
Soldier, Rest! Robert J. Burdette 1796
Tale of the Tangled Telegram, The Wilbur D. Nesbit 1709
Threnody, A George Thomas Lanigan 1754
Tim Flannigan's Mistake Wallace Bruce Amsbary 1673
University Intelligence Office, The John Kendrick Bangs 1727
Warrior, The Eugene Field 1708
When Doctors Disagree S. E. Kiser 1762
When the Little Boy Ran Away Frank L. Stanton 1792
Widow Bedott's Visitor, The Frances M. Whicher 1660

COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.

THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS

BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

They all climbed up on a high board-fence--
Nine little Goblins, with green-glass eyes--
Nine little Goblins that had no sense,
And couldn't tell coppers from cold mince pies;
And they all climbed up on the fence, and sat--
And I asked them what they were staring at.

And the first one said, as he scratched his head
With a queer little arm that reached out of his ear
And rasped its claws in his hair so red--
"This is what this little arm is fer!"
And he scratched and stared, and the next one said
"How on earth do _you_ scratch your head?"

And he laughed like the screech of a rusty hinge--
Laughed and laughed till his face grew black;
And when he choked, with a final twinge
Of his stifling laughter, he thumped his back
With a fist that grew on the end of his tai