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| | [Preface] | [vii] |
| | [On Making Friends] | [3] |
| | [Thoughts on Cider] | [10] |
| | [One-Night Stands] | [18] |
| | [The Owl Train] | [25] |
| | [Safety Pins] | [29] |
| | [Confessions of a “Colyumist”] | [34] |
| | [Moving] | [42] |
| | [Surf Fishing] | [48] |
| | [“Idolatry”] | [52] |
| | [The First Commencement Address] | [60] |
| | [The Downfall of George Snipe] | [63] |
| | [Meditations of a Bookseller] | [66] |
| | [If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House] | [71] |
| | [Adventures in High Finance] | [74] |
| | [On Visiting Bookshops] | [78] |
| | [A Discovery] | [83] |
| | [Silas Orrin Howes] | [91] |
| | [Joyce Kilmer] | [97] |
| [Tales of Two Cities] | | [109] |
| I. | [Philadelphia:] |
| | [An Early Train] |
| | [Ridge Avenue] |
| | [The University and the Urchin] |
| | [Pine Street] |
| | [Pershing in Philadelphia] |
| | [Fall Fever] |
| | [Two Days Before Christmas] |
| | [In West Philadelphia] |
| | [Horace Traubel] |
| II. | [New York:] | | [163] |
| | [The Anatomy of Manhattan] |
| | [Vesey Street] |
| | [Brooklyn Bridge] |
| | [Three Hours for Lunch] |
| | [Passage from Some Memoirs] |
| | [First Lessons in Clowning] |
| | [House Hunting] |
| | [Long Island Revisited] |
| | [On Being in a Hurry] |
| | [Confessions of a Human Globule] |
| | [Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus] |
| | [Sunday Morning] |
| | [Venison Pasty] |
| | [Grand Avenue, Brooklyn] |
| | [On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up] | [236] |
| | [Musings of John Mistletoe] | [240] |
| | [The World's Most Famous Oration] | [242] |
| | [On Laziness] | [244] |
| | [Teaching the Prince to Take Notes] | [249] |
| | [A City Notebook] | [253] |
| | [On Going to Bed] | [270] |