LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[He Wore his Collars so High that He Had to Order Them from a Drummer]

[Suppressing Nothing "On Account of the Respectability of the Parties Concerned"]

[As an Office Joke the Boys Used to Leave a Step-Ladder by Her Desk so that She Could Climb Up and See How Her Top-Knot Really Looked]

[And Brought with Him a Large Leisure and a Taste for Society]

[Sometimes He Thought It was a Report of a Fire and at Other Times It Seemed Like a Dress-Goods Catalogue]

[As the Dinner Hour Grew Near She Raged—So the Servants said—Whenever the Telephone Rang]

["Jim Purdy, Taken the Day He Left for the Army"]

[He Advertised the Fact that He was a Good Hater by Showing Callers at His Office His Barrel]

[He Likes to Sit in the Old Swayback Swivel-Chair and Tell Us His Theory of the Increase in the Rainfall]

[And Camped in the Office for Two Days, Looking for Jimmy]

[Reverend Milligan Came in with a Church Notice]

[A Desert Scorpion, Outcast by Society and Proud of it]

["He Made a Lot of Money and Blew it in"]

[Went About Town with His Cigar Pointing Toward his Hat-Brim]

[The Traveling Men on the Veranda Craned Their Necks to Watch Her Out of Sight]

[Counting the Liars and Scoundrels and Double-Dealers and Villains Who Pass]