108

XIII. SUMMER BOARDERS AND OTHERS 123

XIV. THREE OPEN LETTERS 134

XV. THE DUBIOUS FUTURE 144

XVI. EARNING A REWARD 156

XVII. A PLEA FOR JUSTICE 162

XVIII. GRAINS OF TRUTH 168

XIX. A SCAMPER THROUGH THE PARK 179

XX. HINTS TO THE TRAVELER 187

XXI. A MEDIEVAL DISCOVERER 201

XXII. HOW TO PICK OUT A BIRTHPLACE 208

XXIII. ON BROADWAY 218

XXIV. MY TRIP TO DIXIE 222

XXV. THE THOUGHT CLOTHIER 228

XXVI. A RUBBER ESOPHAGUS 233

XXVII. ADVICE TO A SON 243

XXVIII. THE AUTOMATIC BELL BOY 254

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You can pay five cents to the Elevated Railroad and get here, or
you can put some other man's nickel in your own slot and
come here with an attendant _Frontispiece_

His old look of apprehensive cordiality did not leave him until
he had seen me climb on a load of hay with my trunk and start
for home 15

Then they tied a string of sleighbells to his tail, and hit him a
smart, stinging blow with a black snake 27

My idea was to apply it to the wall mostly, but the chair tipped,
and so I papered the piano and my wife on the way down 36

Frogs build their nests there in the spring and rear their young,
but people never go there 45

I improved the time by cultivating the acquaintance of the beautiful
and picturesque outcasts known as the Piute Indians 57

He sometimes succeeds in getting himself disliked by some other
dog and then I can observe the fight 67

Then rolling my trousers up a yard or two, I