A collection of short stories by American authors, including Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Stephen Crane.
Having gone to sea as a cook on a nineteenth-century fishing schooner, Ned thinks that if he uses up all the salt on board he will get to return home in time for his ninth birthday.
Jamie is excited when she answers an ad for a free pony and finds McIntosh, the perfect pony for her, but he may have already been claimed by someone else.