Back to the Woods: The Story of a Fall from Grace

E-text prepared by Al Haines
The Story of a Fall from Grace
BY HUGH McHUGH
1902
To all the boys in the Hammer Club:—Greetings and gesundheit! Get together now and hit hard—for the Devil loveth a Cheerful Knocker.
Yours till the last whistle blows, believe me! John Henry
Clara J.—A Dream of Peaches—Please Pass the Cream
Uncle Peter—the Original Trust Tamer
Aunt Martha—a Short, Stout Bundle of Good Nature
Tacks—the Boy Disaster
Bunch Jefferson—All to the Good and Two to Carry
Seven, come eleven!