47
VI A Trade and Other Matters 55
VII Heroes and Hero Worship 65
VIII Dress, Chivalry and the Trojan War 71
IX More Trading, and some Family History 84
X About Mothers 92
XI Over on Trigger 100
XII The Fightingest Boy 117
XIII Around the Fire 125
XIV The Visit Home, and the Funeral Occasion 141
XV Trouble on Trigger and Elsewhere 157
XVI Filial Piety and Croup 169
XVII Blessings and Hatings 176
XVIII Christmas Anticipations 183
XIX Christmas and Danger 192
XX War and Worse on Trigger 202
XXI Suspense 212
XXII The "Eech," and Tragedy 222
XXIII Despair, and Budding Romance 236
XXIV The Babe 249
XXV Change and Growth 260
XXVI "Marvles" and Marvels 270
XXVII Transformation 283
XXVIII "Keeps" 293
XXIX Liberty and New Life 301

ILLUSTRATIONS

"When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?" _Frontispiece_

"My two assistants abandoned work to stare
open-mouthed at him." 12

"'Here is Keats back again,--he has got to stay with
you women and get l'arning if it kills him dead!'" 20

"'Genealogical' and 'irreconcilable' were child's
play to him, 'incomprehensibility,' a bagatelle." 30

"I sat wondering what if anything would be the proper
literary milk for my babes." 39

"The table was overturned, chairs were flying, bedlam
had broken loose." 41

"'By dogs, now, did you ever see anybody look as good
as me?'" 49

"'Just feel my muscle,' he said, 'Oh, I'm so nervy!'" 63

"'Fight, dogs, you haint no kin, 'F you kill one
another, taint no sin!'"