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STORIES

BY

EDNA FERBER





MARCH, 1912




FOREWORD


"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."

Um-m-m--maybe.  After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers
were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of
the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be
more careful of her finger-nails and grammar?  After Puss in Boots had
won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often
fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the
lady of the former poor miller's son?

It is a great risk to take with one's book-children.  These stories make
no such promises.  They stop just short of the phrase of the old story
writers, and end truthfully, thus:  And so they lived.

E. F.




CONTENTS


    I.  THE FROG AND THE PUDDLE
   II.  THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
  III.  WHAT SHE WORE
   IV.  A BUSH LEAGUE HERO
    V.  THE KITCHEN SIDE OF THE DOOR
   VI.  ONE OF THE OLD GIRLS
  VII.  MAYMEYS FROM CUBA
 VIII.  THE LEADING LADY
   IX.  THAT HOME-TOWN FEELING
    X.  THE HOMELY HEROINE
   XI.  SUN DRIED
  XII.  WHERE THE CAR TURNS AT 18TH




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THE FROG AND THE PUDDLE

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