Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and Others

MCMIV

Preface

CONTENTS

The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart

The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use

The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How

The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful

The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel

What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory

The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack

The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man

The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up

The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help

The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out

The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along

The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store on Monday Morning

The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills

The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place

The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last

How an Humble Beginner Moved from One Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit

The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum

Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Correspondence School of Wooing

The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things

The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper

Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Years Crop of Graduates

The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down

What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation

The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots