You can pay five cents to the Elevated Railroad and get here, or you can put some other man's nickel in your own slot and come here with an attendant (Page 2)

This volume was prepared for publication by the author a few months before his death, and is now published by arrangement with Mrs. Edgar Wilson Nye.

CONTENTS

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I.A Guest at the Ludlow[1]
II.Old Polka Dot's Daughter[13]
III.A Great Cerebrator[22]
IV.Hints for the Household[33]
V.A Journey Westward[42]
VI.A Prophet and a Piute[52]
VII.The Sabbath of a Great Author[64]
VIII.A Flyer in Dirt[69]
IX.A Singular "Hamlet"[81]
X.My Matrimonial Bureau[92]
XI.The Hateful Hen[99]
XII.As a Candidate[108]
XIII.Summer Boarders and Others[123]
XIV.Three Open Letters[134]
XV.The Dubious Future[144]
XVI.Earning a Reward[156]
XVII.A Plea for Justice[162]
XVIII.Grains of Truth[168]
XIX.A Scamper Through the Park[179]
XX.Hints to the Traveler[187]
XXI.A Medieval Discoverer[201]
XXII.How to Pick Out a Birthplace[208]
XXIII.On Broadway[218]
XXIV.My Trip to Dixie[222]
XXV.The Thought Clothier[228]
XXVI.A Rubber Esophagus[233]
XXVII.Advice to a Son[243]
XXVIII.The Automatic Bell Boy[254]