CONTENTS CHAPTER I ETTISG READY F OR CHKIST. I, . S , . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER I1 c 1 5 5 S 1 H . O 4 P P ISG, . . . . . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER I11 l.-I r owI IJ LEIISG EESE, . . . . . . . . . 26 CHXITER IV THE GEESE NOT ALL L EAI YET, . . . . . . 3 5 CHXITER V tr trs. r. r - 1 s . 1 A T CSCLE SI. IOS S, . . . . . . 4 7 CHAPTER V1 THE FOLKS AT THE RIG HOLTSE, . . . . . . . j8 CHXITER 1 11 OS E A I TI I. IA cE, GOOL VILLT OIVAKI I E S , . . 66 CHRISTXIAS WEEK AT BIGLERS MILL GETTIXG READY FOR CHRISTMAS T HL4T 1 uckiii ole stump thinks hes going to get away from is yet, exclaimed Ned, as he and liis sister, Lize Jaile, and Col si S i saw the crooked old sassafras stu npa, t . which the-had beell workiilg for an hour, roll down illto the ditch at the side of the road. L 6 Psllaw, you all aint going to give it i p exclai iled the plucky little fellow, who thouglit he saw signs of disco zrageinetit on tlie faces of the two older children. The lane, where they stood, was thickly bordered with bushes and underbrush, to which here and there still clung a dried leaf or last years sumac bob. In tlie roadway stood a forlorn old mule hitched to a rough cart, nearly filled with sassafras stliull s and roots, wliicli liad been -earthed by tlie hard work of these three grand-9