| A FEW IDIOTISMS | ||
| PAGE | ||
| I. | The Four-Masted Cat-Boat | 1 |
| II. | The Poor was Mad | 7 |
| III. | A Peculiar Industry | 10 |
| IV. | Griggs’s Mind | 14 |
| V. | The Signals of Griggs | 21 |
| VI. | À la Sherlock Holmes | 25 |
| VII. | My Spanish Parrot | 30 |
| VIII. | “To Meet Mr. Cavendish” | 35 |
| IX. | Instinct Supplied to Hens | 41 |
| X. | A Spring Idyl | 46 |
| XI. | An Inverted Spring Idyl | 49 |
| XII. | At the Chestnuts’ Dinner | 52 |
| XIII. | The Rough Words Society | 57 |
| XIV. | A New Use for Horses | 63 |
| XV. | A Calculating Bore | 67 |
| XVI. | An Urban Game | 71 |
| XVII. | “De Gustibus” | 75 |
| XVIII. | “Buffum’s Bustless Buffers” | 79 |
| AT THE LITERARY COUNTER | ||
| XIX. | “The Father of Santa Claus” | 85 |
| XX. | The Dialect Store | 92 |
| XXI. | “From the French” | 100 |
| XXII. | On the Value of Dogmatic Utterance | 107 |
| XXIII. | The Sad Case of Deacon Perkins | 112 |
| XXIV. | The Missing-Word Bore | 118 |
| XXV. | The Confessions of a Critic | 122 |
| XXVI. | How ’Rasmus Paid the Mortgage | 128 |
| XXVII. | ’Midst Armed Foes | 137 |
| XXVIII. | At the Sign of the Cygnet | 141 |
| XXIX. | A Scotch Sketch | 146 |
| UNRELATED STORIES—RELATED | ||
| XXX. | Ephrata Symonds’s Double Life | 153 |
| XXXI. | A Stranger to Luck | 161 |
| XXXII. | Cupid on Runners | 173 |
| XXXIII. | My Truthful Burglar | 183 |
| XXXIV. | The Man without a Watch | 189 |
| XXXV. | The Wreck of the “Catapult” | 201 |
| ESSAYS AT ESSAYS | ||
| XXXVI. | The Bull, the Girl, and the Red Shawl | 211 |
| XXXVII. | Concerning Dish-Washing | 219 |
| XXXVIII. | A Perennial Fever | 225 |
| XXXIX. | “Amicus Redivivus” | 231 |
| XL. | The Proper Care of Flies | 236 |
NOTE
I am indebted to the editors of the “Century”, the “Saturday Evening Post,” “ Harper’s Bazaar,” “Puck,” the “Critic,” the “Criterion,” and the S. S. McClure Syndicate for permission to use the articles which first met printers’ ink in their columns.
C. B. L.