INDEX

A. L. A. Book List, [21].

Æneid, The, indigestible to a goat, [127].

Amanda (colored cook of librarian), [27].

Ancestor Worship, see [Genealogists].

Animals, library classification of, impossible, [170].

Authors, Young, hectic vanity of, [8].

Baxter Public Library, see [Ezra Beesly Free Public Library].

Bibliomaniacs (in Hell), [205].

Bilkins, Benj. S., heroic sacrifice of, [57].

Bird, Peculiar, observed by Mrs. Mayo, [65].

[Bluffers, Literary], [202].

[Books], One Hundred Best, [117] et seq.

Boston Athenæum, Catalogue of, [64].

Boston Public Library, superior advantages of, [217].

Bunkum, Martha Matilda, [19].

[Bureau of Education], see [Education, Bureau of].

Carnegie, Andrew, [227].

——, baffled again, [261].

[Cat, Runcible], [177].

[Children, Good, Parentage of], [48].

[Children's Librarian], nefarious plot against a, [141].

[Clam], Little Neck, how preferred, [116].

[Colonel, Retired], favorite remark of, [43].

[Congress, Library of], see [Library of Congress].

Crumpet, Mrs. Cornelia, [11].

——, Miss Hortense, [83].

Culture Clubs, see [Twenty Minute Culture Club].

Cut Worms, [270].

Darkness, Child of, [244].

Dufunnie, Prof. Samuel McK., [3].

Dying Maiden, see [Maiden, Dying].

Dyspepsia, Goat gets, [127].

[Education, Bureau of], see [Bureau of Education].

Extra-illustrators, see [Snippers].

[Ezra Beesly Free Public Library], [63], [109].

Falstaff, Sir John, as football center, [93].

Family Ghost, see [Ghost, Family].

Fassett, Prof. H. B., distressing adventures of, [110] et seq.

Fat Woman, [211].

[Feet], Pigs', not in public library, [85].

Flippancy of librarian, deplored, [300].

Fool Girls, punishment of, [187].

Football, Literary, [90].

Frugles, Prof. Milo P., [9].

——, exposed, [15].

Fuddy-dud, great work of Dr. Wurzberger on, [131].

[Genealogists], [145], [196].

[Ghost, Family, anæmic condition of], [50].

Gibbons, Cardinal, mistaken for historian, [135].

[Goat, Wild], see [Wild Goat].

Good Children, see [Children, Good].

Grand Dames of Pequot War, [199], 214.

Gray Hairs, cause of, to librarians, see [Genealogists].

Gustafsen, Dr. Oscar, [6].

——, dryness of article by, [7].

[Heroine, Learned], [46].

——, Modern, dissolute habits of, [47].

[Highball], Scotch, as a life-saver, [36].

[Historians, Scientific], [9], 158 et seq.

Impossible Things, practice in believing, [282].

Indexes of gardening books, [25].

Interest Gauge, retail price of, [8].

Jasper, Dr. Nicholas, sufferings of, [149] et seq.

"Jerusalem Delivered," weight of, [125-26].

Johnson, William DeGrift, cap belonging to, [232].

Kookle, Reginald (A.B., Cornell), [68].

Larkin, Miss Fritilla Lee, [13].

Learned Heroine, see [Heroine, Learned].

[Library of Congress], see [Congress, Library of].

"Librarian at Play," price of, see Any Book Dealer.

Librarian, see also [Children's Librarian].

Literary Bluffers, see [Bluffers, Literary].

Little Neck Clam, see [Clam, Little Neck].

Lobster Trap, how to sink a, [125-26].

Macbeth, unsuccessful golf match of, [97].

[Maiden, Dying], [44].

Mayo, Mrs. Humphrey (née Gookin), [65] et seq.

Mike, love of, [33].

Misers, clinking habits of, [58].

Mongoose, story about a, [287].

Mysterious Man, [222].

Nature Books, child pretends fondness for, [14].

Nuisances, see [Genealogists].

"Old Librarian's Almanack," [63].

One Hundred Best Books, see [Books, One Hundred Best].

Oyster, Eldest, conservative temperament of, [279].

Patterson, Miss Pansy, [63].

Pests, see [Genealogists].

Pigs' Feet, see [Feet, Pigs'].

Ponsonby, Perks & Co. (publishers), [20].

Q, [23].

Reformed Spellers, see [Spellers, Reformed].

Retired Colonel, see [Colonel, Retired].

Runcible Cat, see [Cat, Runcible].

Russia, source of supply of villains, [55].

Scientific Historians, see [Historians, Scientific].

Scotch Highball, see [Highball, Scotch].

[Simpleton], Village, [57].

Simplified Spellers, see [Spellers, Reformed].

Slithy Tove, see [Tove, Slithy].

Smith, Mrs. Pomfret, [76].

——, comes back, [80].

[Snippers], post-mortem treatment of, [191].

[Spellers], Reformed, eternal punishment of, [195].

Sunflowers, how deep to sow seeds of, [22] et seq.

"Teacher," see [Children's Librarian].

Telephones, slowness of, when librarian is waiting in rain, [29].

Thorns in the Flesh, see [Genealogists].

[Tove], Slithy, [176].

[Twenty Minute Culture Club], [12].

Utilitarianism, [76].

Vanhoff, Amos, [64] et seq.

Village Simpleton, see [Simpleton, Village].

Villains, degeneracy of, [52].

Who's Who in America, [63].

[Wild Goat], see [Goat, Wild].

Wurzberger, Dr. Obadiah, soul-racking experience of, [131] et seq.

Xenophon's Anabasis (perhaps in box), [119].

Young Crab, how to broil a, [123].

Zanesville, Ohio (birthplace of "excited person"), [227].

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.