ContentsPAGEFrontispiece:The Forest Farm.Drawn byMelicent NorrisRosegger: An Appreciation.ByMaude Egerton King9Peter Rosegger: A Biographical Note.ByDr. Julius Petersen.With a portrait15I.My Father and I.Illustrated by M. E. K. and L. E.29II.How I Gave God my Sunday Jacket.Translated byA. T. de Mattos36III.Christmas Eve.Translated by M. E. K.42IV.A Last Will and Testament.Translated by M. E. K.61V.How Little Maxel's House was Burned Down.Translated by M. E. K. and L. G.74VI.Three Hundred and Sixty-four Nights and a Night.Translated byA. T. de Mattos80VII.How the White Kid Died.Translated byA. T. de Mattos86VIII.Children of the World in the Forest.Translated byA. T. de Mattos93IX.How Meisensepp Died.Translated byLouise Evers105X.The Corpus Christi Altar.Translated byA. T. de Mattos114XI.About Kickel, who went to Prison.Translated byEthel Blount124XII.How I Came to the Plough.Translated byA. T. de Mattos142XIII.The Recruit.Translated byA. T. de Mattos146XIV.A Forgotten Land.Translated byA. T. de Mattos161XV.The Schoolmaster.Translated byA. T. de Mattos170XVI.The Stag on the Wall.Translated byMelicent NorrisandM. E. King179XVII.Forest-Lily in the Snow.Translated byA. T. de Mattos186XVIII.The Sacred Cornfield.Translated byM. E. KingandL. Swietokowski190XIX.About my Mother.Translated byA. T. de Mattos195