_By J. Gurner Fisher_, " " 30-31

THE OLD TRAPPER'S SHOT,
_By J. Gurner Fisher_, " " 44-45

THE MOUNTAIN TORRENT,
_By J. Gurner Fisher_, _Frontispiece No. 3_

THE VAGABOND'S ROCK,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles,_ _Frontispiece No. 4_

JOHN NORTON'S VAGABOND, (_Heading_) 76

"VAGABONDS INCLUDED IN THIS INVITE,"
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, between pages 80-81

"AND ABOVE THE WORDS WAS A STAR,"
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, " " 82-83

THE OLD TRAPPER'S PADDLE,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 85

THE OLD TRAPPER'S RIFLE,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 88

AN OLD TIME GUN,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 89

CHRISTMAS HOLLY,
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 93

"WHERE BE THE SHIPS?"
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, between pages 98-99

"AND FINALLY THE WORDS PASSED INTO THE AIR,"
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 105

"YE CRADLE OF YE OLDEN TIME,"
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, 108

THE OLD TRAPPER AND HIS DOGS,
"Friends come and go, but until death enters kennel
or cabin the hunter and his hounds bide together."
_By W. L. Everett Knowles_, between pages 112-113

HOW JOHN NORTON THE TRAPPER KEPT
HIS CHRISTMAS.

I.

A cabin. A cabin in the woods. In the cabin a great fireplace piled
high with logs, fiercely ablaze. On either side of the broad
hearthstone a hound sat on his haunches, looking gravely, as only a
hound in a meditative mood can, into the glowing fire. In the center
of the cabin, whose every nook and corner was bright with the ruddy
firelight, stood a wooden table, strongly built and solid. At the
table sat John Norton, poring over a book,--a book large of size, with
wooden covers bound in leather, brown with age, and smooth as with the
handling of many generations. The whitened head of the old man was
bowed over the broad page, on which one hand rested, with the
forefinger marking the sentence. A cabin in the woods filled with
firelight, a table, a book, an old man stud