| "THE FIDDLE AND THE BOW." | [ 9 ] |
| Cherish the Little Ones | [19 ] |
| Fat Men and Bald-Headed Men | [22 ] |
| The Poet Laureate of Music | [23 ] |
| The Convict and His Fiddle | [25 ] |
| A Vision of The Old Field School | [27 ] |
| The Quilting and the Old Virginia Reel | [36 ] |
| The Candy Pulling | [44 ] |
| The Banquet | [48 ] |
| There is Music All Around Us | [53 ] |
| The Two Columns. | [61 ] |
| There is a Melody for Every Ear | [63 ] |
| Music is the Wine of the Soul | [66 ] |
| The Old Time Singing School | [72 ] |
| The Grand Opera | [78 ] |
| Music | [80 ] |
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| "THE PARADISE OF FOOLS." | [ 83 ] |
| The Paradise of Childhood | [ 90 ] |
| The Paradise of the Barefooted Boy | [ 98 ] |
| The Paradise of Youth | [104 ] |
| The Paradise of Home | [112 ] |
| Bachelor and Widower | [117 ] |
| Phantoms | [119 ] |
| The False Ideal | [121 ] |
| The Circus in the Mountains | [123 ] |
| The Phantom of Fortune | [128 ] |
| Clocks | [130 ] |
| The Panic | [133 ] |
| Bunk City | [135 ] |
| Your Uncle | [137 ] |
| Fools | [140 ] |
| Blotted Pictures | [143 ] |
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| "VISIONS AND DREAMS." | [147 ] |
| The Happy Long Ago | [151 ] |
| Dreams of the Years to Come | [160 ] |
| From the Cave-man to the Kiss-o-phone | [169 ] |
| Dreams | [175 ] |
| Visions of Departed Glory | [178 ] |
| Nature's Musicians | [181 ] |
| Preacher's Paradise | [185 ] |
| Brother Estep and the Trumpet | [189 ] |
| "Wamper-jaw" at the Jollification | [190 ] |
| The Tintinnabulation of the Dinner Bells | [193 ] |
| Phantoms of the Wine Cup | [196 ] |
| The Missing Link | [197 ] |
| Nightmare | [198 ] |
| Infidelity | [200 ] |
| The Dream of God | [201 ] |