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ILLUSTRATIONS.

By FRANK BEARD.

• Standing Guard over Himself. (Tinted) (Frontispiece)

• First Acquaintance with Flat Creek. (Tinted) 10

• Old Jack Means, the School Trustee. (Tinted) 13

• Mirandy Means 27

• “`Git a Plenty while you're a Gittin',' says I” 29

• Hank Banta's Improved Plunge-bath. (Tinted) 36

• Squire Hawkins 44

• Jeems Phillips 48

• “Next.” (Tinted) 54

• Hannah. (Tinted) 58

• “You're a purty Gal. a'n't you? You air!” (Tinted) 62

• Pete Jones. (Tinted) 68

• Bull 75

• Shocky 82

• Dr. Small and Granny Sanders. (Tinted) 89

• Miss Martha Hawkins 93

• “We're all Selfish akordin' to my Tell.” (Tinted) 97

• “Come, Buck-ah!” 106

• Fire and Brimstone 113

• Bud 117

• The Church of the Best Licks 124

• “Come on!” cried Bud 129

• The Roan Colt's Best Licks. (Tinted) 150

• Miss Nancy Sawyer 154

• Potato on One Side 165

• “God ha'n't Forgot us, Mother!” 168

• Bud Wooing 175

• Hannah with a White, White Face. (Tinted) 186

• Walter Johnson 204

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