Preface
Introduction
Part One Stories
A Night Errant
In Mezzotint
The Dissipated Jeweler
How Willie Saved Father
The Mirage on the Frio
A Tragedy
Sufficient Provocation
The Bruised Reed
Paderewski’s Hair
A Mystery of Many Centuries
A Strange Case
Simmon’s Saturday Night
An Unknown Romance
Jack the Giant Killer
The Pint Flask
An Odd Character
A Houston Romance
The Legend of San Jacinto
Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism
A New Microbe
Vereton Villa
Whiskey Did It
Nothing New Under the Sun
Led Astray
A Story for Men
How She Got in the Swim
The Barber Talks
Barbershop Adventure
Part Two Sketches
Did You See the Circus?
Thanksgiving Remarks
When the Train Comes In
Christmas Eve
New Year’s Eve and How It Came to Houston
Watchman, What of the Night?
Newspaper Poets
Part Three Newspaper Poetry
Topical Verse
Cape Jessamines
The Cricket
My Broncho
The Modern Venus
Celestial Sounds
The Snow
Her Choice
“Little Things, but Ain’t They Whizzers?”
Last Fall of the Alamo
