CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Mrs. Major Minerva 11

II Wilkes Booth Lincoln 24

III Befriending the Heathen 46

IV The Major Peruses Around 61

V Salute Your- Brides 71

VI Signals of Distress 91

VII Billy Green Hill 112

VIII A Right Sweet Cuss 124

IX Mr. Carroll of Baltimore Row 146

X Aunt Cindy Comes 158

XI Christian Zions 171

XII The Whiskered William 187

XIII Whooping Cough School 201

XIV Letters to Santa Claus 214

XV Christmas Morning 232

XVI Jimmy in the Banister 243

XVII The Major's Gallantry 256

XVIII A Respectable Goat 268

XIX Miss Minerva's Baby 287