§ 8 The Spirit of Seventy-six, with Improvements

§ 98 What the Case Called For

§ 99 The Light that Failed

§ 100 He’d Have Preferred Union Hours

§ 101 The Perils of Pranking

§ 102 The Really Important Point

§ 103 The Proper Remedy at Last

§ 104 An Anniversary to Be Remembered

§ 105 The Handiwork of the Amateur

§ 106 The Forethoughted Widow

§ 107 Bumpy Times for the Late Lamented

§ 9 Protecting the Gentler Sex

§ 108 The Genesis of an Old Favorite

§ 109 “A Rose by Any Other Name . . .”

§ 110 A Detail of Figures

§ 111 Provision for the Future

§ 112 The Life of the Party, as It Were

§ 113 Something to Look Forward To

§ 114 Me Lady’s One Weak Point

§ 115 At the Crossing of the Ways

§ 116 The Mysterious Stranger

§ 117 A Chronic Loser

§ 10 Not at All Singular

§ 118 The Call of the Far East

§ 119 He Wouldn’t Commit Himself Yet

§ 120 A Seasonable and Timely Suggestion

§ 121 Not Vouched For as Absolutely Authentic

§ 122 One Time When the Colonel Balked

§ 123 And No Steam Calliope, Either

§ 124 Absolutely Nothing to Debate

§ 125 Keeping It in the Family

§ 126 Speaking, as It Were, with Frankness

§ 127 Glass of Fashion and Mould of Form!

§ 11 Strictly in Confidence

§ 128 Down to the Solid Portions

§ 129 An Anti-Expectoration Advocate

§ 130 Putting Depew in His Place

§ 131 How Larry Boosted the Game

§ 132 When Goldstein Really Cut Loose

§ 133 Tired of Dealing with Crooks

§ 134 By Way of Compromise

§ 135 The Lady Made Good at Last

§ 136 The Low-Down on the Saw-Milling Business

§ 137 There Spoke a Sympathizing Soul

§ 12 He Didn’t Believe in Signs

§ 138 The Inevitable Consequences

§ 139 Not Listed among the Leading Ones Anyhow

§ 140 A Warning to the Yanks

§ 141 In the Nature of a Shock

§ 142 His Worst Fears Confirmed

§ 143 Only Three Had Remained

§ 144 She Who Sought for Peace

§ 145 An Exception for a Native Son

§ 146 Without Professional Assistance

§ 147 Making It Harder Than Ever

§ 13 Advice to Charlie Chaplin

§ 148 Why They Called Him Speedy

§ 149 There Would Be Three in All

§ 150 The Colonel’s Checking System

§ 151 The Reunion of the Aged

§ 152 Probably Stewed Kidneys Ran Third

§ 153 Pretty Pol!

§ 154 The Unforgivable Sin

§ 155 The Burden of the Black Brother

§ 156 Openings in the Higher Branches

§ 157 A Distinction and a Difference

§ 14 What Aunt Myra Desired

§ 158 The Prediction That Came True

§ 159 It Wasn’t His Move, Either

§ 160 Spreading the Feast for the Stranger

§ 161 A Very Natural Request

§ 162 The Voice of a Prophet

§ 163 The Trifles of an Earlier Day

§ 164 In Accordance with the Ritual

§ 165 A Customer Who Wasn’t Wanted

§ 166 The Surest System Yet

§ 167 All According to Specifications

§ 15 When the Dawn of Understanding Came

§ 168 The Reason the Artist Quit

§ 169 To the Depths of Dogology

§ 170 Time Was No Object

§ 171 A Diagnosis Made Offhand

§ 172 Remodeling the Calendar

§ 173 Of a Careless Nature

§ 174 The Light That Failed

§ 175 Sir Izaak Walton in Black

§ 176 Doing Something for the Patient

§ 177 The Real Point of the Joke

§ 16 As Translated into the English

§ 178 The Mystery of Wednesday

§ 179 The Cockney and the Lady

§ 180 Neither Here Nor There

§ 181 One of the Marvels of Science

§ 182 The Proper End of a Caddy

§ 183 One Way to Beat the Game

§ 184 Absolutely No Reason for It

§ 185 The Withdrawal of the Candidate

§ 186 A Peacemaker Who Blessed Himself

§ 187 The Long Wait at Burlington

§ 17 Absolutely no Hurry about It

§ 188 Where Jimmy’s Education Really Was Shy

§ 189 The Made-in-England Substitute

§ 190 Practically Destitute

§ 191 Assigning G. B. S. to His Place

§ 192 A Voice from the Void

§ 193 Taking Nothing from Nothing

§ 194 The Fate of Poor Harry

§ 195 A Wholesale Order

§ 196 This “Yes” and That “Yes”

§ 197 Satisfactory in Every Respect

§ 18 One Who Desired to Know

§ 198 Precisely the Right Word

§ 199 Touching on London Weather

§ 200 The Detour in the Bridal Path

§ 201 Tuesday May Have Been Worse

§ 202 A Touch of Summer Complaint

§ 203 He Never Went There Anyhow

§ 204 Where Republicans Are Scarce

§ 205 The Sole Drawback to Utter Success

§ 206 Sure Damnation for Somebody

§ 207 The Final Smash

§ 19 The Poor Aim of Mr. Zeno

§ 208 Making It Unanimous

§ 209 Advice from Expert Sources

§ 210 A Seeker after Hidden Facts

§ 211 The Curfew in Nebraska

§ 212 The Reward of the Early Riser

§ 213 A Competition Which Was Open to All

§ 214 Not the Order of the Bath

§ 215 The Embarrassing Broad A

§ 216 Tributes to the Late Lamented Ones

§ 217 And the Point of Order Was Sustained

§ 20 Curing the Great Thirst

§ 218 The Light That Lies in Bankers’ Eyes

§ 219 A Call for the Prohibited Stuff

§ 220 The Perfect Introduction

§ 221 An Answer Right Off the Ice

§ 222 Where He Could Go for Thirty Cents

§ 223 Overlooking No Side Bets

§ 224 The Lick That Won the Victory

§ 225 No Closed Season on Fanchon

§ 226 Down and Out for the Count

§ 227 The Plan of the Shut-In

§ 21 The Ways of the Army

§ 228 The Quick-Thinking Referee

§ 229 George, the Forbearing

§ 230 An Old One and Its Younger Half-Brother

§ 231 Corroboration from On High

§ 232 Suffering from a Relapse

§ 233 One Old Enough to Merit Respect

§ 234 The Retort Courteous

§ 235 The Proper Point of View

§ 236 Between the Cloves and the Hiccough

§ 237 War Upon the Reptiles

§ 22 Remote from the Real Centers

§ 238 One of Those Nature-Faking Yarns

§ 239 The Unaccommodating Kansan

§ 240 The Happy Return

§ 241 Bringing in the Sheaves

§ 242 Regarding the Brooklyn Boys

§ 243 When O. Henry Met the Poet Scout

§ 244 Our Institutions Approved

§ 245 The Annoyed Mr. Goldstein

§ 246 Darkness Before the Dawn

§ 247 A Scandal in the Family

§ 23 The Way of the Neighborhood

§ 248 Aiding the Sheriff’s Vision

§ 249 The Affair in Half Moon Street

§ 250 Everything Coming Out Just Right

§ 251 Delivered Through a Middleman

§ 252 Back to God’s Country

§ 253 Hail and Farewell!

§ 254 Calculated to Work Improvements

§ 255 Improvements in the Language

§ 256 An Abiding Delusion, Too

§ 257 Bordering on the Unreasonable

§ 24 A Radical Difference Noted

§ 258 A Slight for the Kellys

§ 259 The Luck of the Absentee

§ 260 Everything Happens for the Worst

§ 261 Spreading the Glad Tidings

§ 262 Out of Business Hours

§ 263 In the Ascending Scale

§ 264 A Family of Imitators

§ 265 Two Conundrums and a Tragedy

§ 266 In the Very Lap of Comfort

§ 267 Making It a Sweepstakes

§ 25 Where the Partnership Dissolved

§ 268 Filling a Long-Felt Want

§ 269 Spoken from the Heart Out

§ 270 Where Proper Relief Lay

§ 271 No Repetitions for Hubby

§ 272 There Was No Hurry about It

§ 273 An Attack on the Affiliated Talent

§ 274 The Deceased Had Been Forehanded

§ 275 How the Reform Worked

§ 276 Where Higher Education Would Have Landed Him

§ 277 Scarcely a Lucrative Calling

§ 26 Absolutely Unfitted for the Rôle

§ 278 A Plea for Studied Action

§ 279 The Current Rate on Suckers

§ 280 Going and Coming

§ 281 The Evils of Intemperance

§ 282 Not a Family of Musicians

§ 283 The Reverend Had a Little Lamb

§ 284 God Save the King’s English!

§ 285 The Kink in Mr. Jones

§ 286 Better than Believing in Santa Claus

§ 287 The Curse of an Active Mind

§ 27 The Careful MacTavish

§ 288 A Way Out of the Difficulty

§ 289 Stylish Language, Indeed!

§ 290 The Original Package

§ 291 The Voice of a Husband

§ 292 The Passive Rôle

§ 293 The Suggestion of a Scandal

§ 294 A Warning Word to a Friend

§ 295 Obstructing the Highway

§ 296 In Part Settlement

§ 297 The Apostolic Switch

§ 1 The Untraveled Stranger

§ 28 The Sway of Eloquence

§ 298 In One of His Tamer Moments

§ 299 That Thick Hotel Crockery

§ 300 A Reduction for Cash

§ 301 Extending Down to the Very Bottom

§ 302 Belated but Sincere

§ 303 An Expert Opinion

§ 304 A Well-Merited Rebuke

§ 305 For Business, Not Pleasure

§ 306 Let There Be Light!

§ 307 A Little Bed Time Tale

§ 29 The Unuttered Wish

§ 308 A Growing Suspicion

§ 309 Caught in the Jam

§ 310 And Getting Worse All the Time

§ 311 A Temptation to His Majesty

§ 312 Giving the Lady the Air

§ 313 Complete in Every Detail

§ 314 A Bare Statement

§ 315 One Right Behind Another

§ 316 How Time Flies, to Be Sure!

§ 317 Honor Where Honor Was Due

§ 30 The Gift of Tongues

§ 318 On Her Own Motive Power

§ 319 Who’s Who in Newark

§ 320 Hives, Perhaps, But No Honey

§ 321 A Mystery Revealed

§ 322 It Very Often Proves Fatal

§ 323 Proving That Figures Don’t Lie

§ 324 The Exact Locality

§ 325 A Two Part Serial

§ 31 He Lacked Storage Space

§ 326 A Tribute to the Father

§ 327 The Personal Touch Was Lacking

§ 328 Straight from the Scriptures

§ 329 The Real Fromage, in Fact

§ 330 Practically No Reason for It

§ 331 He Couldn’t Stick to Any One Thing

§ 332 Reserve Ammunition

§ 333 Dust to Dust

§ 334 No Trouble to Show Goods

§ 335 Fun for Little Isadore

§ 32 The Voice of the Purist

§ 336 An Awful Blow for Mr. Barnum

§ 337 An Over Sensitive Deer

§ 338 The Proper Rate of Exchange

§ 339 Classifying the Delinquent

§ 340 A Touch of the Swedish

§ 341 Calling for Night Work, Too

§ 342 Returning in the Regular Manner

§ 343 Or in Other Words, Slightly Confused

§ 344 A Squirrel without a Peer

§ 345 The Triumph of the Novice

§ 33 There Spoke Envy’s Voice

§ 346 The Gift of Tongues

§ 347 Inquiry Regarding the Stranger

§ 348 When Appearances Were Deceitful

§ 349 The Curious Ways of Sheep

§ 350 Where They Take Things as They Come

§ 351 A Mystery Unraveled

§ 352 Already Showing Signs of Use

§ 353 A Hint to the Wise Is Ample

§ 354 Just Before the Shooting Started

§ 355 The Limit of Helplessness

§ 34 The Treacherous Warehouse

§ 356 The Most Unkindest Cut of All

§ 357 The Position of a Young Man

§ 358 No Detail to Be Overlooked

§ 359 At the Extreme Rear

§ 360 He Knew Where to Find Paw

§ 361 Consolation for the Imperilled One

§ 362 Examples of the Higher Criticism

§ 363 The Prize Smell of the Circus

§ 364 A Tribute—with One Reservation

§ 365 Staving Off the Fatal Blow

§ 35 A Scotchman’s Conscience

§ 366 Special Extra—To Be Read Only in Leap Year

THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

§ 36 Establishing an Identity

§ 37 An Earnest Cry for Help

§ 2 The Prudent Mr. Finnerty

§ 38 The Pride of Creative Genius

§ 39 The Prompt Response

§ 40 Once Every Ten Years

§ 41 One Detail Was Missing

§ 42 In Permanent Storage

§ 43 What Might Be Called an Active Man

§ 44 Sauce for the Goose

§ 45 Driven Beyond His Strength

§ 46 The Custom of the Country

§ 47 Sight Unseen, As It Were

§ 3 Enough for Wilkins

§ 48 A Born Snob

§ 49 Maybe Not on the Second Day, Either

§ 50 Calling a Spade a Spade

§ 51 Poor Aim but Good Intent

§ 52 There Spake True Friendship

§ 53 The Tools Were Lacking

§ 54 A Tribute to Moderation

§ 55 The Instantaneous Diagnosis

§ 56 In Fact, a Positive Fad

§ 57 Something Like a Wampus, Probably

§ 4 Why the Major Didn’t Suit

§ 58 An Education in Peril

§ 59 A Lover of Statistics

§ 60 History in the Un-Making

§ 61 Solving a Dark Mystery

§ 62 Enough of a Good Thing

§ 63 Absolutely Bored by the Whole Thing

§ 64 The Question Categorical

§ 65 Before or After Taking?

§ 66 A Time for All Things

§ 67 Tuesday Would Be Just Like Sunday

§ 5 Grandfather Laughed at This One

§ 68 A Sort of Circulating Medium, as It Were

§ 69 A Service to the Whole Land

§ 70 Deportment Taught by Wire

§ 71 Speaking of Carrier Pigeons

§ 72 Total Loss!

§ 73 With All Good Wishes

§ 74 A Start from Humble Beginnings

§ 75 The Confusing Geography of Jersey

§ 76 With Credit to S. Blythe

§ 77 When the H. C. of L. Came Down

§ 6 The Day Denver Was Surprised

§ 78 How to Beat the System

§ 79 An Echo from 1865

§ 80 There’d Be a Popular Uprising

§ 81 From the Book of Moses

§ 82 Almost Startling, Really

§ 83 A Violent Indisposition

§ 84 The Simplest of Remedies

§ 85 Proving There’s Something in a Name

§ 86 Question: How Far Did George Go?

§ 87 Natural Proof

§ 7 And Worth the Money, Too!

§ 88 A Domicile for All Eternity

§ 89 The Man Who Was Thursday

§ 90 The Least of His Worries

§ 91 This One Stood the Test of Time

§ 92 The Prudent Bride

§ 93 As a Favor to the Railroad

§ 94 Where the Real Fault Lay

§ 95 An Appeal to the Senses

§ 96 The Truth from the Inside

§ 97 The Fate of the Saloon