MR. PRATT’S PATIENTS—Mr. Pratt and his friend Miss Sparrow introduce original methods in the Sea Breeze Bluff Sanitorium for Rest and Right Living.
THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINE—A New Yorker and his daughter seek simple living on Cape Cod, and find adventure and romance.
THE POSTMASTER—A retired sea captain finds plenty of activity in the position of postmaster.
CAP’N WARREN’S WARDS—Cap’n Warren finds himself in strange waters as guardian to a niece and nephew brought up in snobbish New York society.
THE WOMAN-HATERS—Two avowed woman-haters clear up misunderstandings that have made them so.
THE DEPOT MASTER—The depot master, who sees all that goes on, becomes involved in tangled love affairs.
KEZIAH COFFIN—An old maid proves a good angel to a minister in his courtship and turns out not incurably an old maid.
CY WHITTAKER’S PLACE—An old bachelor adopts a little girl and with an old crony forms a “Board of Strategy” for her upbringing.
THE “OLD HOME HOUSE”—Eleven stories about two sea captains and their “Old Home House” for summer boarders.
MR. PRATT—Mr. Pratt gives two young New Yorkers pointers on how to lead the natural life.