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Title: In Our Town

Author: William Allen White

Illustrator: F. R. Gruger
W. Glackens

Release Date: August 7, 2008 [EBook #26207]

Language: English

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In Our Town

BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

The Court of Boyville, The Real Issue, Stratagems and Spoils

Illustrations by F. R. Gruger and W. Glackens

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI

Copyright 1906 by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published April, 1906

Copyright 1904 by The Century Co.
Copyright 1905-1906 by The Curtis Publishing Co.

[Illustration: He wore his collars so high that he had to order them
from a drummer]

Contents

I. SCRIBES AND PHARISEES

II. THE YOUNG PRINCE

III. THE SOCIETY EDITOR

IV. "AS A BREATH INTO THE WIND"

V. THE COMING OF THE LEISURE CLASS

VI. THE BOLTON GIRL'S "POSITION"

VII. "BY THE ROD OF HIS WRATH"

VIII. "A BUNDLE OF MYRRH"

IX. OUR LOATHED BUT ESTEEMED CONTEMPORARY

X. A QUESTION OF CLIMATE

XI. THE CASTING OUT OF JIMMY MYERS

XII. "'A BABBLED OF GREEN FIELDS"

XIII. A PILGRIM IN THE WILDERNESS

XIV. THE PASSING OF PRISCILLA WINTHROP

XV. "AND YET A FOOL"

XVI. A KANSAS "CHILDE ROLAND"

XVII. THE TREMOLO STOP

XVIII. SOWN IN OUR WEAKNESS

XIX. "THIRTY"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

He Wore his Collars so High that He Had to Order Them from a Drummer

Suppressing Nothing "On Account of the Respectability of the Parties
Concerned"

As an Office Joke the Boys Used to Leave a Step-Ladder by Her Desk so
that She Could Climb Up and See How Her Top-Knot Really Looked

And Brought with Him a Large Leisure and a Taste for Society

Sometimes He Thought It was a Report of a Fire and at Other Times It
Seemed Like a