 CONTENTS PAGE On Filling an Ink-well 17 Old Thoughts for Christmas 24 Christmas Cards 31 On Unanswerinq Letters 35 A Letter to Father Time 41 What Men Live By 48 The Unnatural Naturalist 54 Sitting in the Barber's Chair 60 Brown Eyes and Equinoxes 64 163 Innocent Old Men 69 A Tragic Smell in Marathon 75 Bullied by the Birds 81 A Message for Boonville 87 Making Marathon Safe for the Urchin 92 The Smell of Smells 98 A Japanese Bachelor 102 Two Days We Celeberate 117 The Urchin at the Zoo 132 Fellow Craftsmen 139 The Key Ring 144 "Owd Bob" 150 The Apple That No One Ate 167 As to Rumors 174 Our Mothers 181 Greeting to American Anglers 186 Mrs. Izaak Walton Writes a Letter to Her Mother 190 Truth 193 The Tragedy of Washington Square 195 If Mr. Wilson Were the Weather Man 202 Syntax for Cynics 205 The Truth at Last 209 Fixed Ideas 211 Trials of a President Travelling Abroad 215 Diary of a Publisher's Office Boy 217 The Dog's Commandments 219 The Value of Criticism 221 A Marriage Service for Commuters 224 The Sunny Side of Grub Street 226 Burial Service for a Newspaper Joke 236 Advice to Those Visiting a Baby 238 Abou Ben Woodrow 240 My Magnificent System 242 Letters to Cynthia
Thoughts on Setting an Alarm Clock 258 Songs in a Shower Bath 259 On Dedicating a New Teapot 261 The Unforgivable Syntax 263 Visiting Poets 264 A Good Home in the Suburbs 270 Walt Whitman Miniatures 272 On Doors 292 |
