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My Financial Career

Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story

How We Kept Mother’s Day As Related by a Member of the Family

The Laundry Problem A Yearning for the Good Old Days of the Humble Washerwoman

The Great Detective

I

II

THE METHOD OF RECONDITE KNOWLEDGE

III

THE TRAMP SOLUTION

THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED BY SOMEBODY ELSE ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT

THE SOLUTION OF THE THOROUGHLY DANGEROUS WOMAN

THE SOLUTION THAT THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED BY BLUE EDWARD

IV

THE CRIMINAL WITH THE HACKING COUGH

The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing

Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry

The Hallucination of Mr. Butt

Cast Up by the Sea A Sea Coast Melodrama (As Thrown up for 30 cents) —Period, 1880

ACT II—Same Evening. The Kitchen of the Haycroft Farm.

ACT III—Two Years Later. The Fore Shore After Sunset. A Gathering Storm.

ACT IV

ACT V—Six Months Later. Scene. The Kitchen of the Haycroft Farm.

How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90 Related in the Manner of the Best Models in the Magazines

Softening the Stories for the Children But Don’t Do It: They Prefer Them Rough

The Everlasting Angler

I

THE STORY OF THE FISH THAT WAS LOST

II

STORY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY BAIT

III

BEGINNER’S LUCK, OR THE WONDERFUL CATCH MADE BY THE NARRATOR’S WIFE’S LADY FRIEND

IV

THE STORY OF WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE FISH

Love Me, Love My Letters

The Use of Ink for the First Inklings of Love

I

THE OLD-FASHIONED STYLE

II

THE NEWER STYLE OF TO-DAY

III

TRULY RURAL

IV

HYDRAULIC LOVE

THE ANSWERS THEY GOT

WHAT THE PROFESSOR GOT

WOMANLY EPISTLE SENT FROM POSTAL STATION B-28, NEW YORK, TO ARCADIA P. O., VERMONT

THE ANSWER FROM MISS GEORGIA SIMS, BLOOR STREET, TORONTO

The Golfomaniac

Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen Synopsis of Previous Chapters: There are no Previous Chapters.

Letters to the New Rulers of the World

No. I. To the Secretary of the League of Nations.

No. II—To a Disconsolate King

No. III—To a Plumber

No. IV—To a Hotel Manager

No. V—To a Prohibitionist

No. VI—To a Spiritualist

The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias

My Lost Dollar

Personal Experiments with the Black Bass

The Restoration of Whiskers a Neglected Factor in the Decline of Knowledge

Old Junk and New Money A Little Study in the Latest Antiques

Oxford as I See It

The Snoopopaths or Fifty Stories in One

My Affair with My Landlord

The Give and Take of Travel A Study in Petty Larceny, Pro and Con

The Retroactive Existence of Mr. Juggins

Homer and Humbug, an Academic Discussion

“We Have with Us To-Night”

Caroline’s Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant

Father Knickerbocker—A Fantasy

Simple Stories of Success or How to Succeed in Life

Historical Drama

Humour As I See It

L’Envoi The Faded Actor

Laugh With Leacock

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