Billy Baxter 693
Greco-Trojan Game, The Charles F. Johnson 595
How to Know the Wild Animals Carolyn Wells 650
How We Bought a Sewin' Machine
and Organ Josiah Allen's Wife 729
I Remember, I Remember Phoebe Cary 652
In a State of Sin Owen Wister 696
Loafer and the Squire, The Porte Crayon 767
Love Sonnets of a Husband, The Maurice Smiley 725
Meditations of a Mariner Wallace Irwin 713
Modern Advantage, A Charlotte Becker 642
Modern Eclogue, A Bliss Carman 645
My Honey, My Love Joel Chandler Harris 691
Ponchus Pilut James Whitcomb Riley 624
Praise-God Barebones Ellen Mackay Hutchinson
Cortissoz 765
Raggedy Man, The James Whitcomb Riley 643
Shooting-Match, The A.B. Longstreet 666
Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the
Plethoric Dad J.W. Foley 723
Story of the Two Friars Eugene Field 588
Two Husbands, The Carolyn Wells 587
Two Pedestrians, The Carolyn Wells 603
Two Prisoners, The Carolyn Wells 641
Victory Tom Masson 714
Wolf at Susan's Door, The Anne Warner 626

COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.

THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER

_A Ballad_

BY JOHN G. SAXE

An attorney was taking a turn,
In shabby habiliments drest;
His coat it was shockingly worn,
And the rust had invested his vest.

His breeches had suffered a breach,
His linen and worsted were worse;
He had scarce a whole crown in his hat,
And not half a crown in his purse.

And thus as he wandered along,
A cheerless and comfortless elf,
He sought for relief in a song,
Or complainingly talked to himself:--

"Unfortunate man that I am!
I've never a client but gr