The Idiot at Home

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Bangs John Kendrick. The Idiot at Home

I. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

II. A LITTLE DINNER TO SOME OLD FRIENDS

III. IN THE LIBRARY

IV. AS TO A SMALL DINNER

V. ON THE MAINTENANCE OF AN ATTIC

VI. THE IDIOT'S GARDEN

VII. HOUSEHOLD POETRY

VIII. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE HIRED MAN

IX. ON SOCIAL ACCOUNTS

X. AS TO SANTA CLAUS

XI. AS TO NEW-YEAR'S DAY

XII. SOME DOMESTIC INVENTIONS

XIII. A SUBURBAN COMPLICATION

XIV. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE MOTH

XV. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE BURGLAR

XVI. CONCLUSION

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Ten days later all was excitement at the Idiot's new home. Tommy and Mollie were in a state bordering upon frenzy, and gave the cook a great deal of trouble, requesting a taste of this, that, and the other thing, which she was preparing for the dinner to Mr. and Mrs. Pedagog, the Bibliomaniac, and the others. Inwardly, too, they were somewhat wrathful, for they could not understand why they were not permitted to dine with their parents as usual.

"I guess maybe it's your manners that keeps you away, Tommy," said Mollie.

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"But it's what you said, John," said Mrs. Pedagog, somewhat severely.

"Well, I don't see why there can't be a division of responsibility," said the Poet, who had never married, and who knew children only as a theory. "Let the mothers look after them in the daytime, and the fathers at night."

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