ILLUSTRATIONS
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"Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if you should happen to die?"Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
The gardener began promptly74
"I made him dig up whole beds of things"148
The great beast was drawing up his hind legs and was climbing into the car214
Miss Amanda listened with the most eager and overpowering attention258
And dreamed waking dreams of blessedness294
"Do you mean," I cried, "that you would make him a better wife than I do?"336
"Abner, did you ever hear about the eggs of the great auk?"356