The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories

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The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories is a book of stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. The contents list names, among others, THE COPY-CAT, THE COCK OF THE WALK, JOHNNY-IN-THE-WOODS and THE AMETHYST COMB. A story headed THE COPY-CAT says that an affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Little Amelia Wheeler is commonly called “The Copy-Cat” by the pupils of Madame's school. Mrs. Diantha says that looks matter very little, while Grandmother Wheeler says they matter very much.

A character named Sydney is called a scholar and a gentleman, one who had led a gentle and sequestered life. A character named Annie is shown watching Tom Reed disappear beneath the trellised hood of the door.

About the author

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American novelist, poet and children's writer. Her ghost stories have been anthologized often, and her collection "Young Lucretia and Other Stories" is among her titles. In 1925 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.