duction.--The
Edwin Booth. By Laurence Albany Depot.--The Garroters.--Five
Hutton. O'Clock Tea.--The Mouse-trap.--A
Likely Story.--Evening Dress.--The
Phillips Brooks. By Rev. Unexpected Guests.
Arthur Brooks, D.D.
A Little Swiss Sojourn.
The Rivals. By Francois
Coppee. My Year in a Log Cabin.

PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.

Copyright, 1893, by Harper & Brothers.

_All rights reserved._

TO F. S. M.

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"'Are you related to Governor McKinley?'" _Frontispiece_

"Alarmed the cook" 5

"'What are the first symptoms of insanity?'" 13

"'Reading Webster's Dictionary'" 17

"'I stuck to the pigs'" 23

The conspirators 25

"'Weren't your ears long enough?'" 33

"'The corks popped to some purpose last night'" 37

"'If you could spare so little as one flame'" 43

The school-master as a cooler 47

"'Reading the Sunday newspapers'" 51

Bobbo 55

Wooing the Muse 67

"'He gave up jokes'" 71

"'A little garden of my own, where I could raise an
occasional can of tomatoes'" 75

"'A hind-quarter of lamb gambolling about its native heath'" 77

"'The gladsome click of the lawn-mower'" 80

"'You don't mean to say that you write for the papers?'" 85

"'We wooed the self-same maid'" 87

Curing insomnia 91

"Holding his plate up to the light" 97

"'I believe you'd blow out the gas in your bed-room'"