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Title: John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

Author: Frank R. Stockton

Release Date: September 23, 2007 [EBook #22737]

Language: English

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John Gayther's Garden and
the Stories Told Therein

[Illustration: "Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if
you should happen to die?"]

John Gayther's Garden and
the Stories Told Therein
By Frank R. Stockton

_ILLUSTRATED_

Charles Scribner's Sons

New York 1902

Copyright, 1902, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

_Published November, 1902_

THE DEVINNE PRESS

CONTENTS

PAGE

John Gayther's Garden 3

I What I Found in the Sea 9
Told by John Gayther

II The Bushwhacker Nurse 39
Told by the Daughter of the House

III The Lady in the Box 71
Told by John Gayther

IV The Cot and the Rill 109
Told by the Mistress of the House

V The Gilded Idol and the King Conch-shell 155
Told by the Master of the House

VI My Balloon Hunt 201
Told by the Frenchman

VII The Foreign Prince and the Hermit's Daughter 223
Told by Pomona and Jonas

VIII The Conscious Amanda 249
Told by the Daughter of the House

IX My Translatophone 279
Told by the Old Professor

X Th