TO

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, Jr.

WHOSE FONDNESS FOR PLUM PUDDINGS

SUGGESTS THE PROPRIETY OF THIS

Dedication

Thanks are due to the Publishers of Harper's Round Table, Harper's Weekly, The Delineator, Life, Brooklyn Life, and the New York Mail and Express for permission to republish these stories in collected form.

Contents

["Over the Plum-pudding"]
[Bills, M.D.]
[The Flunking of Watkins's Ghost]
[An Unmailed Letter]
[The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Spooks]
[A Glance Ahead]
[Hans Pumpernickel's Vigil]
[The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel]
[A Great Composer]
[How Fritz Became a Wizard]
[Rise and Fall of the Poet Gregory]
[The Loss of the "Gretchen B."]