_The Story of a Surprise, a Success, and Something Else Very Much
Better_




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece: "He looked up--to see _her_ standing at his door!"

"'The umpire decides that you've got to check your guns during the
game.'"

"A voice which sang of a face that was the fairest, and of a dark blue
eye."

"'Something has got to be did, and did mighty blame quick.'"




HEART'S DESIRE


CHAPTER I

THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

_This being in Part the Story of Curly, the Can of Oysters, and the