To
Mistress May Wilson Preston

A LADY OF GREAT DRAWING QUALITIES

ILLUSTRATIONS

["Are you payin' an election bet three weeks after the election's over? Or is it that you're jest a plain bedaddled ijiet?"] Frontispiece

["That's nice," spake the fearsome stranger. "Now stay jest the way you are and don't make no peep or I'll have to plug you wit' this here gat"]

[Mr. Leary's gait became a desperate gallop, and as he galloped he shouted: "Wait, please, here I am.—Here's your passenger"]