Chapter I: Preface

SOME FICTION One More Unfortunate The Strong Young Man of Colusa The Glad New Year The Late Dowling, Senior “Love’s Labour Lost” A Comforter Little Isaac The Heels of Her A Tale of Two Feet The Scolliver Pig Mr. Hunker’s Mourner A Bit of Chivalry The Head of the Family Deathbed Repentance The New Church that was not Built A Tale of the Great Quake Johnny The Child’s Provider Boys who Began Wrong A Kansas Incident Mr. Grile’s Girl His Railway Mr. Gish Makes a Present A Cow-County Pleasantry The Optimist, and What He Died Of The Root of Education Retribution The Faithful Wife Margaret the Childless The Discomfited Demon The Mistake of a Life L. S. The Baffled Asian

TALL TALK A Call to Dinner On Death and Immortality Music—Muscular and Mechanical The Good Young Man The Average Parson Did We Eat One Another? Your Friend’s Friend Le Diable est aux Vaches Angels and Angles A Wingless Insect Pork on the Hoof The Young Person A Certain Popular Fallacy Pastoral Journalism Mendicity’s Mistake Insects Picnicking considered as a Mistake Thanksgiving Day Flogging Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press Charity The Study of Human Nature Additional Talk—Done in the Country

Current Journalings

OBITUARY NOTICES CHRISTIANS PAGANS

MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL

LAUGHORISMS

“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA

POESY Ye Idyll of ye Hippopopotamus Epitaph on George Francis Train Jerusalem, Old and New Communing with Nature Conservatism and Progress Inter Arma Silent Leges Quintessence Resurgam