University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.




CONTENTS


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Cinderella 1
Miss Delamar's Understudy 36
The Editor's Story 76
An Assisted Emigrant 105
The Reporter who Made Himself King 119




CINDERELLA


The servants of the Hotel Salisbury, which is so called because it is
situated on Broadway and conducted on the American plan by a man named
Riggs, had agreed upon a date for their annual ball and volunteer
concert, and had announced that it would eclipse every other annual ball
in the history of the hotel. As the Hotel Salisbury had been only two
years in existence, this was not an idle boast, and it had the effect of