THE BRASS BOUND BOX

By EVELYN RAYMOND

Author of "The Doings of Nancy," "Mixed Pickles," "My Lady Barefoot"

ILLUSTRATED BY DIANTHA W. HORNE

BOSTON DANA ESTES &
COMPANY PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1905
By Dana Estes & Company

All rights reserved

THE BRASS BOUND BOX

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

"AT LAST IT WAS OUT"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Legacy and Legatee 11

II. Master Montgomery Sturtevant 25

III. Why Monty Did Not Go a-Fishing 40

IV. Foxes' Gully 50

V. Chestnuts and Gold Mines 64

VI. The Brass Bound Box 82

VII. The Grit of Moses Jones 95

VIII. Hay-Loft Dreams 110

IX. Squire Pettijohn 126

X. Alfaretta's Perplexity 142

XI. The Face in the Darkness 154

XII. A Sturtevant—Perforce 168

XIII. But—Sturtevant To the Rescue 187

XIV. On a Saturday Afternoon 203

XV. By the Old Stone Bridge 220

XVI. The Cottage in the Wood 234

XVII. A Self-elected Constable 248

XVIII. Reuben Smith, Accessory 263

XIX. What the Moon Saw in the Cornfield 278

XX. Uninvited Guests 292

XXI. A Neighborly Trick of the Wind 310

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"At last it was out" (See page 81). Frontispiece

"He now lay stretched upon his owner's lap as she still sat on the floor" 27

"'I feel so queer every little spell, an' I must get home'" 97

"There, all anxiety forgotten, they dreamed dreams and saw visions" 120

"Ma'am Puss extracted her own supper in advance of the family's" 148

"Already one pumpkin pie was half-devoured" 230

"But the late rising moon looked down upon a curious scene"