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[A Word Said Beforehand] Explaining How a Certain “Chap” Lost His Temper and Found It Again Very Quickly. [Derelict], By Young Ewing Allison A Reminiscence of Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” Based On the Quatrain of Captain Billy Bones. [Picturing the Individual] With Some Observations About A Man Whom I Have the Honor to Call Friend. [Man and Newspaper Man] A Peep Into Personal Records of the Past With Some Comments of a Current Nature. [Just Browsing Around] Excursions Into the “Higher Altitudes” With Something About the Books Up There. [In the Operatic Field] Being a Look Behind the Scenes With Some Glimpses of a Pursuing Jinx. [Ballad of Dead Men] The Same Being Mostly About Able Pirates And the Very Able Descendant of a Pirate. [If There Is Controversy!] Just a Few Bits From the Olden Days With Some Comment On a Certain Critic. [Some Clippings—And a Letter] Which Tells How One Who Did Not Know Set Himself Up As a “Chanty” Authority. [Yo-Ho-Ho And A Bottle Of Rum] Discussed As a Chanty Entertainingly By a Mariner and With a Deep-Sea Flavor.
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[Young Ewing Allison] (By Cusick)Frontispiece. A “Sitting” for Which Photograph Forms A Story Known Only to This Writer. [Derelict] Illuminating the Poem Facsimiles of the Original Illustrations in Rubric (Vol. 1, No. 1, 1901) to Which Certain Piratical Tints Have Been Added. [“A Tempting Bauble”] Said “Bauble” Being a Check (to Cover the Cost of a Certain Book) Which Allison Returned in a Frame With a Few Comments of His Own. [Young E. Allison] (By Wyncie King) Louisville Herald Demon Caricaturist’s Conception of a Pirate’s Poet, With a Cigarette Replacing the Customary “Stogie.” [The Infallible] (By Charles Dana Gibson) A “Type” in Every Old Daily Newspaper Office, Reproduced from Century (October, 1889), Illustrating “The Longworth Mystery.” [Book of “The Ogallallas”] Being a Facsimile (Slightly Reduced) of the Cover of Allison’s First Opera Pursued and Captured By a Jinx. [From The Old “Prompt” Book] Page (slightly reduced) From “The Mouse and the Garter,” Showing Allison’s Characteristic Penciled Notations. [“A Piratical Ballad”] (Words And Music) Facsimile in Miniature of the First Printed Verses of “Derelict” Published and Copyrighted by William A. Pond & Co., 1891.
Together With Certain Letters and Memoranda, Proofs, Mss., etc., About “Fifteen Dead Men,” in Facsimile of Young E. Allison’s Characteristic Handwriting, which are to be Found in a “[Pocket]” in the Inside Back Cover of This Volume.