and bloody muzzle. Woodsman that he was, he understood. "Sonny!" he
cried in a piercing voice. The dog raised his head, wagged his stump
of a tail feebly, and made a futile effort to rise.

Gulping down something in his throat, Joe Barnes handed the child over
to Ann, and strode to Sonny's side. Bending over him, he tenderly
gathered the big dog into his arms, holding him like a baby. Sonny
reached up and licked his chin. Joe turned and hastened back to the
old gray house with his burden.

"Come along, mother," he said, his voice a little unsteady. "You'll
have to look out for the Kid all by yerself for a bit now. I reckon
I'm goin' to hev' about all I kin do, a-nursin' Sonny."

THE END

SIX STAR RANCH

Another success by the author of the wonderful GLAD Books:

"Pollyanna: The GLAD Book"

"Pollyanna Grows Up: The Second GLAD Book"

With frontispiece in full color from a painting by R. Farrington Elwell
and six spirited drawings by Frank J. Murch. Bound uniform with the
POLLYANNA books in silk cloth, with a corresponding color jacket, net
$1.25; carriage paid $1.40

The year we published POLLYANNA, THE GLAD BOOK, we published another book
by the same author, but as it is contrary to our policy to issue two books
by one writer in a year, we published the second book under the pseudonym
"Eleanor Stuart."

As we are not going to publish a new book of Mrs. Porter's this year, we
have decided to announce the publication of SIX STAR RANCH under the name
of its real author. The success of her previous books is practically
unparalleled in the history of American publishing, POLLYANNA: THE GLAD
BOOK, having already sold 300,000 copies--an average of more than 100,000
copies for three consecutive years--and POLLYANNA GROWS UP: THE SECOND
GLAD BOOK, having sold nearly 150,000 copies in nine months.

SIX STAR RANCH is a charming story, in the author's best vein, of a dear
little Texas girl, who plays "the glad game" made famous by POLLYANNA,
and plays it with a charm which will put her on the same pinnacle, side by
side with POLLYANNA.

THE VIOLIN LADY

A Sequel to "The Fiddling Girl" and "The Proving of Virginia"

By Daisy Rhodes Campbell

Frontispiece in full color from a painting by F. W. Read, and six black
and white illustrations by John Goss, decorative jacket, net $1.25;
carriage paid $1.40

This new story continues the adventures of the once little Fiddling Girl
and tells of her triumphs a