NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1891
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York
To Her:
_NOTE._
_My acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Harper & Brothers and to Mr. A.
B. Starey, the Publishers and the Editor of HARPERS’ YOUNG PEOPLE, in
which Magazine I had the pleasure of having these stories, with the
accompanying illustrations, first appear._
_T. N. P._
_CONTENTS._
_A Captured Santa Claus_ _Page 1_
_Kittykin, and the Part She Played in the War_ “ _41_
“_Nancy Pansy_” “ _65_
“_Jack and Jake_” “ _115_
_LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS._
_“Halt!” Bang, bang, went the Guns in His very Face_ _Frontispiece_
_Colonel Stafford opens the Bundle_ _Page 11_
_“What You Children gwine do wid dat little Cat?” asked
Mammy, severely_ “ _40_
_“I Want My Kittykin,” said Evelyn_ “ _54_
_Nancy Pansy clasped Harry closely to Her Bosom_ “ _77_
_She ran up to Him, putting up Her Face to be Kissed_ “ _91_
_He drew Them Plans of the Roads and Hills and big Woods_ “ _123_
_Jack made a running Noose in the Rope and tried to throw
it over the Horse’s Head_ “ _139_