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]