The Pleaders_ 144

COLLEGE CAREER 146

_To Sigurd_ 174

FAREWELLS 177

_To Joy-of-Life_ 215

II

OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROAD

_The Pinegrove Path_ 218

ROBIN HOOD 219

_Why the Spire Fell_ 246

AN EASTER CHICK 248

_How Birds Were Made_ 270

TAKA AND KOMA 272

_Warbler Weather_ 288

SUMMER RESIDENTS AT A WISCONSIN LAKE. BY KATHARINE
COMAN 290

_The Jester_ 304

EMILIUS 305

_Hudson's Cat_ 322

CATASTROPHES 324

_To Hamlet_ 349

HAMLET AND POLONIUS 350

SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE
AND
OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROAD

I

SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE

VIGI

Wisest of dogs was Vigi, a tawny-coated hound
That King Olaf, warring over green hills of Ireland, found;
His merry Norse were driving away a mighty herd
For feasts upon the dragonships, when an isleman dared a word:

"From all those stolen hundreds, well might ye spare my score."
"Ay, take them," quoth the gamesome king, "but not a heifer more.
Choose out thine own, nor hinder us; yet choose without a slip."
The isleman laughed and whistled, his finger at his lip.

Oh, swift the bright-eyed Vigi went darting through the herd
And singled out his master's neat with a nose that never erred,
And drave the star-marked twenty forth, to the wonder of the king,
Who bought the hound right honestly, at the price of a broad gold ring.

If the herddog dreamed of an Irish voice and of cattle on the hill,
He told it not to Olaf the King, whose will was Vigi's will,
But followed him far in faithful love and bravely helped him win
His famous fight with Thorir Hart and Raud, the wizard Finn.

Above the clamor and the clang shrill sounded Vigi's bark,
And when the groaning sh