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Title: Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

Author: Various

Editor: Asa Don Dickinson

Release Date: November 23, 2006 [eBook #19909]

Language: English

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What Every Child Should Know Library

GOOD CHEER STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW

Edited by

ASA DON DICKINSON

Editor of
"The Children's Book of Christmas Stories," Etc.

[Illustration: "When we rounded the last patch of scrub pines and came
upon the long gray house fairly blazing with light ... the effect was
stunning."]

Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., for
The Parents' Institute, Inc.
Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York

Copyright, 1915, by Doubleday, Page & Company

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindness of the Century
Company, Ginn & Co., the J. L. Hammett Company, Harper & Brothers, the
Houghton, Mifflin Company, the J. B. Lippincott Company, the Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Company, the Outlook Company, the Perry Mason Company,
Charles Scribner's Sons, and others, who have granted permission to
reproduce herein selections from works bearing their copyright.

CONTENTS

(Note.--The stories marked with a star (*) will be most enjoyed by
younger children; those marked with a (dagger) are better suited to
older children.)

*The Kingdom of the Greedy. _By P. J. Stahl_

Thankful. _By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman_

Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot. _By Sheldon C. Stoddard_

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