Mary Abbott's tryst -- Witch work / Frank S. Finn -- A moonlight romance / Paul Pastnor -- A strange wooing -- A boy's adventure / Isadore Rogers -- One boy's experience / Marion Leroy -- Miss Oliver's Christmas gift / Marion Leroy -- Billy Mason's foolishness / Eben E. Rexford -- How Robbie saw Santa Claus / Bell H. Mann -- Why Jerry did not celebrate / Lewis Mayington -- A bad name / Kane Kirk -- Cherry bounce / Minnie Willis Baines (Marion Leroy) -- "Buy a broom?" -- The golden mouse -- The early life of Henry Wilson / H.L. Charles -- John Quincy Adams -- The old scrap box -- The doll's funeral / Nellie Brooks -- A Scandinavian Jack the Giant-killer / Julia Goddard -- Inquisitive Floss -- The story of a sagacious squirrel -- Cheap Jack's visit to Littledale / Julia Goddard -- "Patches" / Bell N. Mann -- Jumbo / James A. Manson -- The arctic horse / Ella Rodman Church -- Heroes of the shops -- "Wet the ropes" -- "For fun."