CHAPTER VI. The Ever Unpractical Feminine
CHAPTER VIII. A Tale of a Political Difference
CHAPTER XIV. The Firm of Gray and Vanrevel
CHAPTER XVI. "Those Endearing Young Charms”
THE GUEST OF QUESNAY By Booth Tarkington 1915
BEASLEY'S CHRISTMAS PARTY By Booth Tarkington
Illustrated By Ruth Sypherd Clements October, 1909.
CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO STAY
CHAPTER V. AT THE PASTURE BARS: ELDER-BUSHES MAY HAVE STINGS
CHAPTER VII. MORNING: “SOME IN RAGS AND SOME IN TAGS AND SOME IN VELVET
CHAPTER VIII. GLAD AFTERNOON: THE GIRL BY THE BLUE TENT-POLE
CHAPTER IX. NIGHT: IT IS BAD LUCK TO SING BEFORE BREAKFAST
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREACHERY OF H. FISBEE
CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT HARKLESS COMES HOME
LORDS OF THE HOUSETOPS THIRTEEN CAT TALES
CONTENTS Preface, ix I Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat, 1 II Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut, 11 III Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion, 29 IV Honore de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat 103 (translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten) V Booth Tarkington: Gipsy, 124 VI G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad, 131 VII Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat, 144 VIII Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, 149 IX Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat, 163 X W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat, 198 XI William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend, 203 XII Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat, 220 XIII Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin, 226
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