Table of Contents[Preface][Introduction][Part One: Stories][Part Two: Sketches][Part Three: Newspaper Poetry][A Night Errant][Did You See the Circus?][Topical Verse][In Mezzotint][Thanksgiving Remarks][Cape Jessamines][The Dissipated Jeweler][When the Train Comes In][The Cricket][How Willie Saved Father][Christmas Eve][My Broncho][The Mirage on the Frio][New Year’s Eve][The Modern Venus][A Tragedy][Watchman, What of the Night?][Celestial Sounds][Sufficient Provocation][Newspaper Poets][The Snow][The Bruised Reed][Her Choice][Paderewski’s Hair][“Little Things, but Ain’t They Whizzers?”][A Mystery of Many Centuries][Last Fall of the Alamo][A Strange Case][Simmon’s Saturday Night][An Unknown Romance][Jack the Giant Killer][The Pint Flask][An Odd Character][A Houston Romance][The Legend of San Jacinto][Binkley’s Practical School of Journalism][A New Microbe][Vereton Villa][Whiskey Did It][Nothing New Under the Sun][Led Astray][A Story for Men][How She Got in the Swim][The Barber Talks][Barbershop Adventure]