Foreword
The Sensitive Colonel Jay
A Matter of Loyalty
Taking No Chances
The Other Side of It
Journalistically Impossible
The Power of Reputation
The Distraction of Grief
A Sporting Interest
Had a Use for It
The Old Landmark
A Personal Insult
Toddlekins
Reconciliation
Buying a Piano
Too Late
Nothing to Say
“Goin Home Fur Christmas”
Just a Little Damp
Her Mysterious Charm
Convinced
His Dilemma
Something for Baby
Some Day
A Green Hand
A Righteous Outburst
Getting at the Facts
Just for a Change
Too Wise
A Fatal Error
Prompt
The Rake-Off
The Telegram
An Opportunity Declined
Correcting a Great Injustice
A Startling Demonstration
Leap Year Advice
After Supper
His Only Opportunity
Getting Acquainted
Answers to Inquiries
City Perils
Hush Money
Relieved
No Time to Lose
A Villainous Trick
A Forced March
Book Reviews
A Conditional Pardon
Inconsistency
Bill Nye
To a Portrait
A Guarded Secret
A Pastel
Jim
Board and Ancestors
An X-Ray Fable
A Universal Favorite
Spring
The Sporting Editor on Culture
A Question of Direction
The Old Farm
Willing to Compromise
Ridiculous
Guessed Everything Else
The Prisoner of Zembla
Lucky Either Way
The “Bad Man”
A Slight Mistake
Delayed
A Good Story Spoiled
Revenge
No Help for It
Rileys Luck
“Not So Much a Tam Fool”
A Guess-Proof Mystery Story
Futility
The Wounded Veteran
Her Ruse
Why Conductors Are Morose
“Only to Lie—”
The Pewee
The Sunday Excursionist
Decoration Day
Charge of the White Brigade
An Inspiration
Coming to Him
His Pension
The Winner
Hungry Henry’s Ruse
A Proof of Love
One Consolation
An Unsuccessful Experiment
Superlatives
By Easy Stages
Even Worse
The Shock
The Cynic
Speaking of Big Winds
Unknown Title
An Original Idea
Calculations
A Valedictory
Solemn Thoughts
Explaining It
Her Failing
A Disagreement
An E for a Knee
The Unconquerable
An Expensive Veracity
Grounds for Uneasiness
It Covers Errors
Recognition
His Doubt
A Cheering Thought
What It Was
Vanity
Identified
The Apple
How It Started
Red Conlin’s Eloquence
Why He Hesitated
Turkish Questions
Somebody Lied
Marvelous
The Confession of a Murderer
“Get Off the Earth”
The Stranger’s Appeal
The Good Boy
The Colonel’s Romance
A Narrow Escape
A Years Supply
Eugene Field
Slightly Mixed
Knew What Was Needed
A Sure Method
