Publisher's Synopsis
1900. Part Fifteen of Twenty-three. Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: The Lady or the Tiger? The Discourager of Hesitancy; The Transferred Ghost; The Spectral Mortgage; Every Man His Own Letter-Writer; That Same Old Coon; Our Story; Derelict; On the Training of Parents; A Borrowed Month; The Baker of Barnbury; and The Watchmaker's Wife. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
