CONTENTS.
Starting Out—Becoming Ambitious—Leaving Home—Hotel Porter—Card Business—Lightning Rod Agent—Traveling Men—The Accident.
Busted—Soap Signs—Walking—The Two Actors—Free Theatres—Jumping Bills—The Other Fakir—Pen Schemes—Street Talk—The Friendly Haystack.
Meeting Prof. Carter—The Music Scheme—Flowers and Novelties—The Ladies—The Soap Racket—Street Gags and Jokes—The Sinking Vessel.
The Contemptible Piano Tuner—The Biographical Write-up Fake—The Flattered Black-smith.
Fakir Maxims—A Happy Meeting—Auction Business—Talk and Auction Gags—The Boy Auctioneer—Parting with Prof. Carter.
Getting onto Scheme Goods—Frightening the Ladies—Trick at Church Fair—Street Work—The Catchy Little Look-backs, and Giving Them Away—The Horse and the Loaf of Bread Trick—Handling Microscopes.
The Museum Scheme and the Six Widows—Traveling Without Paying Railroad Fare—Living on Free Lunches—At a Low Ebb—The Animated Chocolate Drop—Old Auntie from Smoky Row—The Corn Doctor—The Excited Mob—Not Only Broke, but Dead-broke—The Letter from Home—Getting Out of Town.
The New Doctor and Professional Grafter—Medicine Fake—The Electric Battery and Money—Fun with Crowd in the Street—Selling Pipes and Giving Watches Away—Fooling the Farmers—The Circus, Turnips and the Elephant—Working the Hotel Landlords.
Side Lines and Schemes of Various Kinds—The Glass Pen—Pie Scheme Choked Off—Selling Notions from Wagon—Fighting the Railroad Bonds—Forced to Leave Town—Legislated Out of Business—A Warning and the Escape—The Accident—The Penny Raffling Scheme.
Catching Suckers—Biting Myself—The Hospital Nurse and Mail Order Schemes—Working Saloon Men on Bible Racket.
The Portrait Business—Tricks of the Trade—The Band and Hall Plan—Excitement and Joke at Voting Contest—The Frame Scheme.
Tricks in Delivering and Collecting—The Stingy Landlord and the Prunes—Day Board $3.00 per Week—Drummers $2.00 per Day—The Elopement.
Working the Saloon Keeper for an Extra Five—Alone Again—Arrested—Fighting the License—Sick—The Insurance Scheme—The Wheel and Cigar Dodge—The Stage Hold-up—The Horse Doctor and Cholera—Cigars, Two for a Nickel—Making a Preacher Swear.
Temperance Town and Cold Tea Racket—Busted Again—Money Making Schemes—The Shoemaker Couldn’t Sleep—Going Back to Street Work—The Fifty Thousand Dollar Money Deception—Jewelry Packages to Be Used Any Old Way—Some More Street Jokes—A Watch and Chain for Twenty-five Cents.
Selling Musical Instruments—Trickery and Deception—Looking for Something New—Selling the Roaster—The Canvass.
Selling Bibles—Selling Books—What Was Said—Working the Customers—Curiosity—Public Meetings and Library Clubs.
Adding to Bank Account—Looked Better, Felt Better and Was Better—Selling Encyclopedias—Complete Canvass—Tricky and Persistent—Advertising Schemes—Tricks of the Present Day—Disguises—How Different Business Men Were Worked—Strategy.
Rebuffs and Insults—The Lawyer, the Doctor and the Coon—Avoiding a License—Working the City Marshal—Jokes with the Milliner—Banking Twelve Thousand Dollars.
The Real Estate Fake—Booming a Town—Making a Fortune—Tricks of Other People—All This World Is a Fake and Every Person in It a Fakir—The Politician and the Widow—A Diamond Ring for Two Cents.
Married and Settled Down—Retired and Happy—A Dip in the Lake—The World Is Round and Wide—Farewell.
TWENTY YEARS A FAKIR.