These pages may prove to you, oh! reader, but a garden overrun with weeds. Should you, however, find only one simple little flower worth laying away as a souvenir, my purpose will have been answered.

G. P. U.

Chicago, September 20, 1869.

CONTENTS.

[The Season]1
[Sleeping in Church]3
[The Organ Grinder]5
[A Retrospect]7
[Whited Sepulchres]9
[Nothing and Babies]13
[The Circus]18
[Before the Wedding]20
[The Wedding]29
[Muscular Christianity]37
[The Boston Girl]41
[The Dead]44
[Our Thanksgiving]50
[Mrs. Grundy]55
[Behind the Scenes]57
[A Christmas Carol]68
[The New Year]74
[Ole Bull]80
[Small Talk]82
[Flat on the Back]85
[Getting out of Bed]91
[The Teapot]96
[A Masque]101
[The Miracle of Creation]104
[Fashionable Weddings]107
[April]113
[A Summer Reverie]116
[The Germans and Music]119
[The Old Story]126
[In Memoriam]131
[Lake Michigan]135
[Rip Van Winkle]141
[An Autumn Reverie]149
[The Best Woman in the World]151
[The School House]153
[A New Life]157
[Old Blobbs—His Speech]160
[Death of the Maiden Aunt]163
[The New Year]167
[Public Parties]171
[Aurelia's Baby]176
[The Quarrel]182
[A Woman not of the Period]185
[A Trip to Heaven]187
[Day Dreams]193
[Lent and Children]196
[Bells]203
[Tenors and Bassos]207
[A Child's Story—The Three Roses]213
[The Old]222
[Old Blobbs' Opinions]232
[Types]237
[Woman in Church]245
[The Mountains]249
[The Jubilee]254
[The Double Life]291
[Love and the Blue Flower]298
[Marriage]307
[Old Blobbs Redivivus]322
[A Trip to Hell]329
[L'Envoi]339