COPYRIGHT BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1881

TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
201-213 East 12th Street,
NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]A Morning Canter
[CHAPTER II.]Rapid Transit
[CHAPTER III.]Aunt Mercy
[CHAPTER IV.]Jack-in-the-Box
[CHAPTER V.]Jimmy the Rhymer
[CHAPTER VI.]The Price of Poetry
[CHAPTER VII.]Phaeton's Chariot
[CHAPTER VIII.]A Horizontal Balloon-Ascension
[CHAPTER IX.]The Art Deservative
[CHAPTER X.]Torments of Typography
[CHAPTER XI.]A Comical Comet
[CHAPTER XII.]A Literary Mystery
[CHAPTER XIII.]A Lyric Strain
[CHAPTER XIV.]An Alarm of Fire
[CHAPTER XV.]Running with the Machine
[CHAPTER XVI.]A New Fire-Extinguisher
[CHAPTER XVII.]How a Church Flew a Kite
[CHAPTER XVIII.]An Extra Fourth-of-July
[CHAPTER XIX.]A Conquest
[CHAPTER XX.]Rings, Scissors, and Boots
[CHAPTER XXI.]A Tea-Party
[CHAPTER XXII.]Old Shoes and Orange-Blossoms

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The Printing-Office]

[Rapid Transit by Cable]

[Rapid Transit by Car]

[The Boys Consult Jack-in-the-Box]

[Ned's Invention]