| August—Riley | [32] |
| Anecdotes of Jay Gould—Nye | [23] |
| A Black Hills Episode—Riley | [132] |
| A Blasted Snore—Nye | [190] |
| A Brave Refrain—Riley | [188] |
| A Character—Riley | [142] |
| A Dose't of Blues—Riley | [220] |
| A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake—Riley | [30] |
| A Hint of Spring—Riley | [168] |
| A Letter of Acceptance—Nye | [56] |
| A Treat Ode—Riley | [170] |
| Craqueodoom—Riley | [81] |
| Curly Locks—Riley | [118] |
| Ezra House—Riley | [161] |
| From Delphi to Camden—Riley | [75] |
| Good-bye or Howdy-do—Riley | [195] |
| Healthy, but Out of the Race—Nye | [101] |
| Her Tired Hands—Nye | [152] |
| His Crazy Bone—Riley | [89] |
| His Christmas Sled—Riley | [150] |
| His First Womern—Riley | [41] |
| How to Hunt the Fox—Nye | [46] |
| In a Box—Riley | [214] |
| In the Afternoon—Riley | [65] |
| Julius Cæsar in Town—Nye | [34] |
| Lines on Hearing a Cow Bawl—Riley | [107] |
| Lines on Turning Over a Pass—Nye | [120] |
| Me and Mary—Riley | [109] |
| McFeeters' Fourth—Riley | [211] |
| My Bachelor Chum—Riley | [178] |
| Mr Silberberg—Riley | [96] |
| Niagara Falls from the Nye Side—Nye | [111] |
| Never Talk Back—Riley | [20] |
| Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back—Nye | [165] |
| Our Wife—Nye | [172] |
| Prying Open the Future—Nye | [90] |
| Says He—Riley | [204] |
| Seeking to Be Identified—Nye | [228] |
| Seeking to Set the Public Right—Nye | [216] |
| Spirits at Home—Riley | [99] |
| Society Gurgs from Sandy Mush—Nye | [197] |
| Sutter's Claim—Riley | [226] |
| This Man Jones—Riley | [43] |
| That Night—Riley | [124] |
| The Boy Friend—Riley | [54] |
| The Chemist of the Carolinas—Nye | [82] |
| The Diary of Darius T Skinner—Nye | [144] |
| The Grammatical Boy—Nye | [77] |
| The Gruesome Ballad of Mr Squincher—Riley | [21] |
| The Man in the Moon—Riley | [148] |
| The Philanthropical Jay—Nye | [180] |
| The Truth about Methuselah—Nye | [126] |
| The Tar-heel Cow—Nye | [137] |
| The Rise and Fall of William Johnson—Nye | [66] |
| The Rossville Lecture Course—Riley | [134] |
| Wanted, a Fox—Nye | [222] |
| Where He First Met His Parents—Nye | [17] |
| Where the Roads are Engaged in Forking—Nye | [206] |
| While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn—Riley | [201] |
| Why It Was Done—Nye & Riley | [11] |
Where He First Met His Parents
Last week I visited my birthplace in the State of Maine. I waited thirty years for the public to visit it, and as there didn't seem to be much of a rush this spring, I thought I would go and visit it myself. I was telling a friend the other day that the public did not seem to manifest the interest in my birthplace that I thought it ought to, and he said I ought not to mind that. "Just wait," said he, "till the people of the United States have an opportunity to visit your tomb, and you will be surprised to see how they will run excursion trains up there to Moosehead lake, or wherever you plant yourself. It will be a perfect picnic. Your hold on the American people, William, is wonderful, but your death would seem to assure it, and kind of crystallize the affection now existing, but still in a nebulous and gummy state."
A man ought not to criticise his birthplace, I presume, and yet, if I were to do it all over again, I do not know whether I would select that particular spot or not. Sometimes I think I would not. And yet, what memories cluster about that old house! There was the place where I first met my parents. It was at that time that an acquaintance sprang up which has ripened in later years into mutual respect and esteem. It was there that what might be termed a casual meeting took place, that has, under the alchemy of resist-less years, turned to golden links, forming a pleasant but powerful bond of union between my parents and myself. For that reason, I hope that I may be spared to my parents for many years to come.
Many memories now cluster about that old home, as I have said. There is, also, other bric-a-brac which has accumulated since I was born there. I took a small stone from the front yard as a kind of memento of the occasion and the place. I do not think it has been detected yet. There was another stone in the yard, so it may be weeks before any one finds out that I took one of them.
How humble the home, and yet what a lesson it should teach the boys of America! Here, amid the barren and inhospitable waste of rocks and cold, the last place in the world that a great man would naturally select to be born in, began the life of one who, by his own unaided effort, in after years rose to the proud height of postmaster at Laramie City, Wy. T., and with an estimate of the future that seemed almost prophetic, resigned before he could be characterized as an offensive partisan.