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Title: The Pot of Gold
And Other Stories

Author: Mary E. Wilkins

Release Date: August 7, 2005 [EBook #16468]

Language: English

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SHORT STORY

THE POT OF GOLD

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

MARY E. WILKINS

Author of "A New England Nun," "A Humble Romance," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED_

BOSTON D LOTHROP COMPANY 1893

COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY D. LOTHROP COMPANY.

SHORT STORY

CONTENTS.

THE POT OF GOLD
THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS
PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN.
I. THE PRINCESS ROSETTA
II. THE POP-CORN MAN
THE CHRISTMAS MONKS
THE PUMPKIN GIANT
THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE
DILL
THE SILVER HEN
TOBY
THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL
THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE
A PLAIN CASE
A STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE
THE BOUND GIRL
DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL
THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Flax looks into the Pot of Gold _Frontis._
The settle and the kettle
Drusilla and her gold-horned cow
A Knight of the Golden Bee
The princess was not in the basket!
The bee guards patrolled the city
"You!" cried the baron scornfully
Both the king and queen were obliged to pop
Going into the chapel
The boys read the notice
The prince and Peter are examined by the monks
The boys at work in the convent garden
The prince runs away
He picked up an enormous young Plantagenet and threw
it at him
They were all over the field
Then the king knighted him on the spot
There never was anything like the fun at the mayor's
Christmas ball
Their parents stared in great distress
"I will go and tend my geese!"
She sang it beautifully
A strange sad state of things
Nan returns with the umbrellas
Such frantic efforts to get away
Dame Elizabeth stared with astonishment
The count thinks himself insulted
The snow was quite deep
Two by two
The snow man's house
Puss-in-the-corner
To the rescue
"I'll put this right in your face and--melt you!"
Letitia stood