In Our Town
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In Our Town
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.
He wore his collars so high that he had to order them from a drummer
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IN OUR TOWN
I
Scribes and Pharisees
Suppressing nothing "on account of the respectability of the parties concerned"
II
The Young Prince
III
The Society Editor
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
IV
"As a Breath into the Wind"
V
The Coming of the Leisure Class
And brought with him a large leisure and a taste for society
VI
The Bolton Girl's "Position"
Sometimes he thought it was a report of a fire and at other times it seemed like a dress-goods catalogue
VII
"By the Rod of His Wrath"
As the dinner hour grew near she raged—so the servants said—whenever the telephone rang
VIII
"A Bundle of Myrrh"
"Jim Purdy, taken the day he left for the army"
IX
Our Loathed but Esteemed Contemporary
He advertised the fact that he was a good hater by showing callers at his office his barrel
X
A Question of Climate
He likes to sit in the old sway-back swivel-chair and tell us his theory of the increase in the rainfall
XI
The Casting Out of Jimmy Myers
And camped in the office for two days, looking for Jimmy
"UNDER THE STARS & BARS"
Democracy Opens Its State Campaign Under the Rebel Emblem To-day A Fitting Token Treasonable Utterances Have a Proper Setting
Democracy Opens Its State Campaign Under the Rebel Emblem To-day A Fitting Token Treasonable Utterances Have a Proper Setting
Reverend Milligan came in with a church notice
XII
"'A Babbled of Green Fields"
A desert Scorpion, outcast by society and proud of it
XIII
A Pilgrim in the Wilderness
XIV
The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop
XV
"And Yet a Fool"
"He made a lot of money and blew it in"
XVI
A Kansas "Childe Roland"
Went about town with his cigar pointing toward his hat-brim
XVII
The Tremolo Stop
XVIII
Sown in Our Weakness
The traveling men on the veranda craned their necks to watch her out of sight
XIX
"Thirty"
Counting the liars and scoundrels and double-dealers and villains who pass
THE END
THE END
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