Jimmie the Wind.

61. SMITH, F. H.: Colonel Carter of Cartersville.

62. STEVENSON: The Bottle Imp.

63. A Lodging for the Night.

64. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

65. The Merry Men.

66. The Pavilion on the Links.

67. STOCKTON: The Lady or the Tiger?

68. The Transferred Ghost.

69. A Story of Seven Devils.

70. VAN DYKE: The Blue Flower.

71. WILKINS (FREEMAN): A New England Nun.

72. The Revolt of Mother.

V

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THE SHORT-STORY

[The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich
Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious in the
Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from
its primitive settlers. His historical researches, however, did not lie
so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty
on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still
more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true
history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family,
snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore,
he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter, and
studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.

The result of all these researches was a history of the province during
the reign of the Dutch governors, which he published some years since.
There have been various opinions as to the literary character of his
work, and, to tell the truth, it is not a whit better than it should be.
Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little
questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely
established; and it is now admitted into all historical collections, as
a book of unquestionable authority.

The old gentleman died shortly after the