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John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein By Frank R. Stockton

ILLUSTRATED

Charles Scribner's Sons

New York 1902

Copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons

Published November, 1902

THE DEVINNE PRESS

CONTENTS

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John Gayther's Garden 3

I What I Found in the Sea 9 Told by John Gayther

II The Bushwhacker Nurse 39 Told by the Daughter of the House

III The Lady in the Box 71 Told by John Gayther

IV The Cot and the Rill 109 Told by the Mistress of the House

V The Gilded Idol and the King Conch-shell 155 Told by the Master of the House

VI My Balloon Hunt 201 Told by the Frenchman

VII The Foreign Prince and the Hermit's Daughter 223 Told by Pomona and Jonas

VIII The Conscious Amanda 249 Told by the Daughter of the House

IX My Translatophone 279 Told by the Old Professor

X The Vice-consort 307 Told by the Next Neighbor

XI Blackgum ag'in' Thunder 341 Told by John Gayther

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if you should happen to die?" Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

The gardener began promptly 74

"I made him dig up whole beds of things" 148