Trolley Folly

by Henry Wallace Phillips

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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CONTENTS

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I	Trolley Folly	[1]
II	The Numismatist	[32]
III	The Mascot of the Grays	[61]
IV	The Little Canoe	[90]
V	The Reverse of a Medal	[104]
VI	Ten Minutes of Eternity	[126]
VII	The Punishment and the Crime	[135]
VIII	Camp Cunningham	[165]
IX	Hohankton, Pettie and Others	[191]
X	The Fatal Gum	[214]
XI	Blessed be the Peacemakers	[238]

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TROLLEY FOLLY

I
JIMMIE HORGAN’S FORETASTE OF FORTUNE

It was a splendid office—mahogany, plate-glass windows and all that pertains to the uninteresting side of respectability. There was a lawyer there, sitting before his desk—a crisp, gray sort of lawyer, who looked as if when you patted him gently he would snap a finger off. One Jimmie Horgan was also there.

Now, Jimmie was a careless youth, and a cheerful habit of sending people scattering, acquired by managing the controller in the employment of the Suburban Trolley Company, gave him what might be called a cynicobenevolent view of life. He had learned that the human body was an unreliable vessel to hold so great a thing as a soul.

One bunt from his trusty car, and the greatest alderman who ever received boodle for that same franchise promptly departed for Heaven, or its suburban districts.