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The Birds' Orchestra     7

My Prayer To Truth     14

A Scene in Washington, N. C.     16

Little Naples by the Sea     17

The Family of My Friend Jones     17

The King's Marriage     19

The Hermit Thrush     19

My Retreat     23

The Mocking-Bird     24

The Jay and I—A Dialogue     26

Nature's Heart     27

A Nigger and a Mule     28

Virginia's Natural Bridge     30

The Might of Matutinal Music     30

A Perpetual King     31

The Cotton Gin     32

The Cotton Mill     32

My Own Little Girl     32

My Butterfly     33

Was That Somebody I?     34

My Sabbath Sermon     35

Pilot Mountain     36

Her Prison Life     37

Aurelius Augustinus     38

O, That Income Tax! 40

In Florida     41

Two Little Orphans     42

Trouble and Play     43

Some Small Surprises     43

The Rhythm Universal     44

The Stone Crosses and the Fairies     45

The Sun Flower     46

Colonel Diamond and Grand-daughter     47

The Wild Wood     48

The Beginning of Things     49

The End of Things      49

When the Junco Comes     50

James Bradley Jackson     51

A Story of Colonial Times      53

"Come on wid yer Money fur Me"     55

Good Out of Evil     56

Christmas     57

Mrs. Josephine F. Hamill     58

A Chick's Cry     59

The Kid and the Cop     59

The Over Favored and The Chanceless Child     61

The Slanderer     61

The World's Greatest Egotist     62

Little River Royal     63

Give Me Both     64

Manifold Beauty and the Man     64

Chimney Rock     66

The Elephant Dance     67

Least Yet Greatest     67

Old Ship Church     67

A Little Toast to the Men of the Press     68

Mother Indeed     68

Nathan O'Berry     68

The Bishop's Garden     69

My Triolet     70

Ye Bonny Boys     71

A Ballade to the Girls     71