Twilight Stories
1889
An 1889 miscellany for children by Margaret Sydney, Susan Coolidge, Joaquin Miller and others, mixing short stories with poems, ballads and picture verses. The pieces run from a Revolutionary War tale to nursery rhymes about a monkey and a giraffe.
- Christmas Day
- The Only Woman in the Town
- The Conquest of Fairyland
- Kentucky Belle
- Prophecies
- Why He Was Whipped
- "Apples Finkey"—The Water-Boy
- The Soldier's Reprieve
- Little Brown Thrushes
- The Story of the Empty Sleeve
- Facing the World
- Robert of Lincoln
- "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle."
- The Barefoot Boy
- Babouscka
- Daisies
- Driving Home the Cows
- The Baby's Kiss
- The Lost Diamond Snuff Box
- The American Flag
- Aunt Polly Shedd's Brigade
- Corinne's Musicale
- Barbara Frietchie
- Sheridan's Ride
- The Children's Hour
- Caryl's Plum
- Our Two Opinions