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New York Alfred . A . Knopf Mcmxxi

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
CLARENCE DAY, JR.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_With Acknowledgments to the Editors of the Metropolitan Magazine,
Harpers Magazine, Harpers Weekly, The New Republic, and The Boston
Transcript._

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Contents

PAGE

The Three Tigers 3
As They Go Riding By 7
A Man Gets Up in the Morning 15
Odd Countries 18
On Cows 26
Stroom and Graith 28
Legs vs. Architects 44
To Phoebe 49
Sex, Religion and Business 51
An Ode to Trade 63
Objections to Reading 65

ON AUTHORS

The Enjoyment of Gloom 77
Buffoon Fate 84
The Wrong Lampman 89
The Seamy Side of Fabre 93
In His Baby Blue Ship 101

PROBLEMS

The Man Who Knew Gods 109
Improving the Lives of the Rich 118
From Noah to Now 128
Sic Semper Dissenters 135
Humpty Dumpty and Adam 137
How It Looks to a Fish 142
A Hopeful Old Bigamist 147
The Revolt of Capital 154
Still Reading Away 161

PORTRAITS

A Wild Polish Hero 165
Mrs. P.'s Side of It 173
The Death of Logan 183
Portrait of a Lady 190
Grandfather's Three Lives 198
Story of a Farmer 217

The
Crow's
Nest

The Three Tigers

As to Tiger Number One, what he likes best is prowling and hunting. He
snuffs at all the interesting and exciting smells there are on the
breeze; that dark breeze that tells him the secrets the jungle has hid:
every nerve in his body is alert, every hair in his whiskers; his eyes
gleam; he's ready for anything. He and Life are at grips.