Postscripts

Table of Contents

Foreword

Postscripts

The Sensitive Colonel Jay

A Matter of Loyalty

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

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

Even Worse

The Shock

The Cynic

Speaking of Big Winds

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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

Some Ancient News Notes

A Sure Method

Endnotes