Child-Queen, A. (Illustrated by Alfred Fredericks) Cecilia Cleveland 1

Chased by Wolves. (Illustrated) George Dudley Lawson 3

Jingle:  There was an Old Person of Crewd. (Illustrated by K. W. P.) 6

Mollie’s Boyhood. (Illustrated by George White) Sarah E. Chester 7

The Largest Volcano in the World. (Illustrated) Sarah Coan 13

Making it Skip.  Verse. (Illustrated by Thomas Moran) M. M. D. 15

Willow Wand, The.  Poem. (Illustrated) A. E. W. 16

Story that Wouldn’t be Told, The. (Illustrated) Louise Stockton 18

Polly:  A Before-Christmas Story. (Illustrated) Hope Ledyard 19

Boggs’s Photograph.  Picture. 21

Lord Mayor of London’s Show, The. (Illustrated) Jennie A. Owen 22

My Girl.  Poem.  John S. Adams 25

Mars, the Planet of War. (Illustrated by the Author)
  Richard A. Proctor 26

Domestic Tragedy, A. In Two Parts (Illustration) 31

Bell-Ringers, The Stickleback. (Illustrated by James C. Beard)
  C. F. Holder 31

Cricket on the Hearth, The.  Poem. (Illustrated )Clara Doty Bates 33

How I Weighed the Thanksgiving Turkey.  G. M. Shaw 34

Nimble Jim and the Magic Melon. (Illustrated by E. B. Bensell)
  J. A. Judson 34

“Oh, I’m My Mamma’s Lady-Girl.”  Verse. (Illustrated by
  Addie Ledyard) M. M. D. 41

Christmas-Gifts, A Budget of Home-Made. (Illustrated) 42

Little Tweet. (Illustrated) 64

Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Illustrated) 66

Can a Little Child Like Me? (Thanksgiving Hymn) Mary Mapes Dodge 68

“Baby’s Opera” and Walter Crane, The. 69

The Letter Box. 69

The Moons of Mars. 69

The Riddle Box. (Illustrated) 71

[Transcriber’s Notes:  For ease of navigation, this Table of Contents has been taken from the full contents listing for the volume.  Some entries were missing from the index.  For completeness they have been added and marked with an asterisk.

The full list of contents for Volume V is to be found at the end of this text.

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