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The Black Cat FOR DECEMBER, 1895,

Will contain the following Original and Complete Stories.

No magazine ever issued at any price has presented in one number a collection of stories marked by such originality and fascinating force as those contained in this issue of The Black Cat. As the edition is limited, those desiring copies should not fail to place orders with their newsdealers in advance of publication.

The Great Star Ruby. By Barnes MacGreggor.

In this highly dramatic story the action, which centers around a fifty-thousand-pound ruby, moves swiftly and stirringly from Australia to India, thence to the Continent, and then back to Australia.

The Interrupted Banquet. By René Bache.

The startling experience of a man who, without warning, found himself and sweetheart the guests at a phantom dinner party.

The Archangel. By James Q. Hyatt.

A clever account of the strange incidents resulting from the introduction of a matrimonial journal into a bachelor mining camp, during Gold Time.

Asleep at Lone Mountain. By M. D. Umbetsetter.

A graphic tale of overland travel, abounding in pathetic and absorbing incident.

Kootchie. By Harold Kinsabby.

A Boston butler, an aristocratic pug known as Buttons, and a missionary cat, are the chief characters in this brief comedy of real life.

Frazer's Find. By Roberta Littlehale.

No more powerful and humanly interesting story of the California pioneer days has appeared than this tale of one man's struggles for the gold and the love that came too late. The story gains rather than loses by the womanly delicacy of touch that is united to the vigor of its theme.

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