struck off into the
scrub pine, carrying with me a large board 74

He looked up sadly at me with his one eye as who should say,
"Have you got any more of that there red paint left?" 105

"Mr. Nye, on behalf of this vast assemblage (tremulo), I thank
God that you are POOR!!!" 115

Three or four times as much oxygen is consumed in activity as in
repose, hence the hornets' nests introduced by me last season 124

Playing billiards, accompanied by the vicious habit of pounding
on the floor with the butt of the cue ever and anon, produces
at last optical illusions 149

Mr. Whatley hadn't gone more than half a mile when he heard the
wild and disappointed yells of the Salvation army 159

"I was in a large, cool hosspital which smelt strong of some forrin
substans. The hed doctor had been breathing on me and so I
come too" 163

Said the Governor as he swung around with his feet over in our
part of the carriage and asked me for a light 181

He therefore had to borrow a bald-headed man to act as bust for
him in the evening 194

It was at this time that he noticed the swinging of a lamp in a
church, and observing that the oscillations were of equal duration 202

Here Andrew turned the grindstone in the shed, while a large,
heavy neighbor got on and rode for an hour or two 210

"A man that crosses Broadway for a year can be mayor of Boston,
but my idee is that he's a heap more likely to be mayor of the
New Jerusalem" 220

I bought tickets at Cincinnati of a pale, sallow liar, who is just
beginning to work his way up to the forty-ninth degree in the
Order of Ananias 222

In hotels it will take the mental strain off the bell-boy, relieving
him also of a portion of his burdensome salary at the same
time 256

A GUEST AT THE LUDLOW

I

We are stopping quietly here, taking our meals in our rooms mostly, and
going out very little indeed. When I say we, I use the term editorially.

We notice first of all the gr