, The Henry A. Shute 1881
Reason, The Ironquill 1890
Rubaiyat of Mathieu Lattellier Wallace Bruce Amsbary 1965
Settin' by the Fire Frank L. Stanton 1821
Shining Mark, A Ironquill 1877
"There's a Bower of Bean-Vines" Phoebe Cary 1916
To Bary Jade Charles Follen Adams 1899
Tom's Money Harriett Prescott Spofford 1955
Trial that Job Missed, The Kennett Harris 1917
Trouble-Proof Edwin L. Sabin 1801
Uncle Bentley and the Roosters Hayden Carruth 1873
Unsatisfied Yearning R. K. Munkittrick 1835
What Lack We Yet Robert J. Burdette 1897
When Lovely Woman Phoebe Cary 1834
Whisperer, The Ironquill 1822
Why Wait for Death and Time? Bert Leston Taylor 1866
Willy and the Lady Gelett Burgess 2009
Winter Dusk R. K. Munkittrick 1975
Winter Joys Eugene Field 1868
Ye Legende of Sir Yroncladde Wilbur D. Nesbitt 1973

COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.

TROUBLE-PROOF[1]

BY EDWIN L. SABIN

Never rains where Jim is--
People kickin', whinin';
He goes round insistin',--
"Sun is _almost_ shinin'!"

Never's hot where Jim is--
When the town is sweatin';
He jes' sets and answers,--
"Well, _I_ ain't a-frettin'!"

Never's cold where Jim is--
None of _us_ misdoubt it,
Seein' we're nigh frozen!
_He_ "ain't _thought_ about it!"

Things that rile up others
Never seem to strike him!
"Trouble-proof," I call it,--
Wisht that I was like him!

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Lippincott's Magazine.

JOHNNY'S PA

BY WILBUR D. NESBIT

My pa--he always went to school,
He says, an' studied hard.
W'y, when he's just as big as me
He knew things by the yard!
Arithmetic? He knew it all
From dividend to sum;
But when he tells me how it was,
My grandma, she says "Hum!"

My pa--he always got the prize
For never bein' late;
An' when they studied