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- Half-Hours With Jimmieboy.
- JOHN KENDRICK BANGS,
- AUTHOR OF
- ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK VERBECK, CHARLES HOWARD JOHNSON, J. T. RICHARDS, P. NEWELL, AND OTHERS.
- NEW YORK: R. H. RUSSELL & SON, MDCCCXCIII.
- TO MY SON, FRANCIS HYDE BANGS.
- CONTENTS.
- I.
- CHRISTMAS EVE AT JIMMIEBOY'S.
- II
- THE DWARF AND THE DUDE GIANT.
- III.
- JIMMIEBOY'S DREAM POETRY.
- IV.
- A SUBTERRANEAN MUTINY.
- V.
- JIMMIEBOY IN THE LIBRARY.
- "THE CALIPEE AND THE ZOOPHAGAN."
- VI.
- JIMMIEBOY'S SNOWMAN.
- WARM WAVE TO-NIGHT.
- WISE SNOWMEN WILL MOVE NORTH AT ONCE.
- VII.
- THE BICYCLOPÆDIA BIRD.
- THE POLLYWOG.
- VIII.
- GIANT THE JACK KILLER.
- IX.
- JIMMIEBOY AND THE FIREWORKS.
- "THE GIANT CRACKER AND THE MANDARIN'S DAUGHTER.
- "THE DREADFUL FATE OF NAUGHTY NATE.
- X.
- JIMMIEBOY'S PHOTOGRAPH.
- "THE HORRID FATE OF JUMPING SAM.
- XI.
- JIMMIEBOY AND THE BLANK-BOOK.
- XII.
- JIMMIEBOY AND THE COMET.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- JIMMIEBOY AND JACK FROST—IN WHICH JACK GIVES OFFENCE.
- XIV.
- IN WHICH JIMMIEBOY AND THE GAS STOVE MAKE A START.
- XV.
- IN THE HEART OF FROSTLAND.
- XVI.
- THE END OF THE STORY.
- (THE END.)
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