Copyrighted 1920
By The Author
INDEX.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| CHIT-CHAT | ||
| I. | Chit-Chat | [1] |
| II. | Cornwall Meets a Mountain Maid | [11] |
| III. | Cornwall Locates in Harlan | [18] |
| IV. | A Week in a Mountan Home | [27] |
| V. | The Saylors Move To the Bluegrass | [39] |
| VI. | Cornwall Buys a Home | [44] |
| VII. | Mary and John Progress | [60] |
| VIII. | Dorothy and Bradford—Rosamond and Cornwall | [72] |
| IX. | The Saylor Family | [87] |
| X. | Mary and John Are Married | [103] |
| XI. | Home Life | [114] |
| SEEING ITALY AT MRS. O'FLANNAGAN'S EXPENSE | ||
| I. | Seeing Italy at Mrs. O'Flannagan's Expense | [127] |
| II. | "Y" Service | [139] |
| III. | John Cornwall Travels a Bit and Returns Home | [161] |
| IV. | Two Candidates | [172] |
| NIRVANA | ||
| Nirvana | [181] | |
| A Conscious Mummy | [198] | |
| Doctor Brown of Danville | [213] | |
| Richard Hawkwood | [225] | |
| THE SEARCHLIGHT | ||
| The Searchlight | [269] | |
CHIT-CHAT.
CHAPTER I.
I thought to write a book entitled: "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." How much is buried in the wreckage of yesterday—how uninteresting today is and how little is to be done—our burden we shift to the strong, young shoulders of tomorrow; tomorrow of the big heart, who in kindness hides our sorrows and whispers only of hope. I ended by writing,—this—which I have called "Chit-Chat," thus classifying the book, knowing that such a book if true to name will picture the age and find a publisher.
I have read in the Arabian Book of Knowledge that "thoughts are Tartars, vagabonds; imprison all thou canst not slay," and have seen fit to follow this suggestion and the advice given a Turkish author—