Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE

By MEREDITH NICHOLSON

THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES

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THE PORT OF MISSING MEN

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ROSALIND AT RED GATE

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ZELDA DAMERON

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THE MAIN CHANCE

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THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE

_By_ MEREDITH NICHOLSON

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG

Oh, for you that I never knew,
Only in dreams that bind you!--
By Spring's own grace I shall know your face
When under the may I find you!

--_H. C. Bunner_

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COPYRIGHT 1908 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

SEPTEMBER

THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Two Gentlemen Say Good-By 1

II The Absence of Governor Osborne 34

III The Jug and Mr. Ardmore 50

IV Duty and the Jug 73

V Mr. Ardmore Officially Recognized 98

VI Mr. Griswold Forsakes the Academic Life 126

VII An Affair at the State House 143

VIII The Labors of Mr. Ardmore 166

IX The Land of the Little Brown Jug 187

X Professor Griswold Takes the Field 201

XI Two Ladies on a Balcony 218

XII The Embarrassments of the Duke of Ballywinkle 235

XIII Miss Dangerfield Takes a Prisoner 257

XIV A Meeting of Old Friends 281

XV The Prisoner in the Corn-Crib 308

XVI The Flight of Gillingwater 336

XVII On the Road to Turner's 349

XVIII The Battle of the Raccoon 362

XIX In the Red Bungalow 375

XX Rosae Mundi 396

XXI Good-By to Jerry Dangerfield 414

THE LITTLE BROWN JUG AT KILDARE