CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Man's Proposal	[1]
II.	Elijah Doxey and His Locked Box	[20]
III.	The First Issue of the Newspaper	[32]
IV.	Settling down after the Honeymoon	[43]
V.	Susan Clegg's Full Day	[64]
VI.	The Editor's Advice Column	[85]
VII.	Mrs. Macy and the Convention	[98]
VIII.	The Biennial	[113]
IX.	The Far Eastern Tropics	[128]
X.	The Evils of Delayed Decease	[142]
XI.	The Democratic Party	[156]
XII.	The Trials of Mrs. Macy	[168]
XIII.	Monotony of Ministerial Monologues	[200]
XIV.	Advisability of Newspaper Exposures	[212]
XV.	The Trial of a Sick Man in the House	[223]
XVI.	The Beginning of the End	[235]
XVII.	An Old-fashioned Fourth	[251]
XVIII.	Celebrating Independence Day	[261]
XIX.	Exit the Man out of Susan Clegg's House	[273]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"'He is a trouble, Mrs. Lathrop,'"	[Frontispiece]
	PAGE
"'A lady come up, looked at my flag, an' asked me if I was a delegate or an alternative'"	[119]
"'Mrs. Macy was just about plum paralyzed at that'"	[179]
"'The bottom come out an' the duck flew down the car'"	[188]

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