| 1. | “That every star was an eye looking down on me with pity.” | ([Frontispiece.]) |
| 2. | Character title. | |
| | | PAGE |
| 3. | Betsy Gaskins | [7] |
| 4. | Initial T | [11] |
| 5. | Jobe Gaskins | [13] |
| 6. | Initial M | [15] |
| 7. | “We both hankered” | [17] |
| 8. | “I did git him started to readin” | [19] |
| 9. | “That canderdate feller” | [20] |
| 10. | Tailpiece | [21] |
| 11. | “Me a knittin, him a settin and studyin” | [23] |
| 12. | “‘Talkin like them blame Populists’” | [26] |
| 13. | “I waked not until broad daylite” | [28] |
| 14. | “‘Feedin-feedin, of course,’ says he” | [29] |
| 15. | “‘Do you promis?’ says I, girlish like” | [30] |
| 16. | “I sot down, lookin him square in the face” | [31] |
| 17. | Bill Bowers | [32] |
| 18. | Ornamental tailpiece | [37] |
| 19. | “‘Ide vote the Dimicrat ticket at the very next township election’” | [39] |
| 20. | “They waked me up at the dead hour of midnite” | [41] |
| 21. | “That very sheet of paper” | [45] |
| 22. | Congressman Richer | [46] |
| 23. | “Jobe works and sweats” | [47] |
| 24. | Ornamental tailpiece | [48] |
| 25. | “Jobe and me both sot down and cried” | [50] |
| 26. | “Started for town bright and airly” | [54] |
| 27. | “Jobe and me counted up how much we had” | [57] |
| 28. | “That nite I put another patch on his pants” | [62] |
| 29. | “He explained to Mr. Jones” | [63] |
| 30. | Ornamental tailpiece | [64] |
| 31. | Ornamental tailpiece | [68] |
| 32. | “Peekin through a crack” | [70] |
| 33. | “Jist a layin it off with his hands” | [71] |
| 34. | “‘Mistur Court, Gaskins is here’” | [74] |
| 35. | “‘I ’bject’” | [76] |
| 36. | “‘I want to prove to you, Mistur Judge’” | [79] |
| 37. | “‘This is the law, whether it is justice or not’” | [81] |
| 38. | “Jobe and me sot there dazed like” | [82] |
| 39. | Aunt Jane | [84] |
| 40. | “He would call him ‘Billy,’ in honor of the next president” | [85] |
| 41. | “Before Jobe could git up, William hit him agin” | [86] |
| 42. | Ornamental tailpiece | [88] |
| 43. | “He would rather pay seven per cent. than six, in order to support a sound money basis” | [90] |
| 44. | “‘Law or no law,’ says I” | [91] |
| 45. | “‘Payin it in gold to keep your party in power is up-hill bizness’” | [92] |
| 46. | “‘John Sherman is the greatest financier on airth’” | [95] |
| 47. | Ornamental tailpiece | [96] |
| 48. | “‘Now, Betsy, you see what kind of a party you belong to’” | [98] |
| 49. | “So I went to work and cut out the headin” | [100] |
| 50. | “‘It is all over, Betsy,’ says he” | [101] |
| 51. | “That nite he slept in the barn” | [103] |
| 52. | “‘Jobe Gaskins, you make another move!’” | [105] |
| 53. | “‘Are you mad, Betsy?’ says he” | [108] |
| 54. | “Jobe was on his knees in the middle of the bed” | [113] |
| 55. | “A strait, influential, leadin Republican officeholder” | [115] |
| 56. | “Lots of fellers jist like him” | [116] |
| 57. | “Jobe he flew up” | [119] |
| 58. | “It wasent anything onusual for a county officer to make all he could” | [120] |
| 59. | “‘Hadent we all ort to be satisfied so long as bonds sell well?’” | [121] |
| 60. | “‘Times are never hard under a gold basis,’ Jobe says” | [122] |
| 61. | “They whispered and snickered at my straw hat and Jobe’s linen coat” | [125] |
| 62. | “He said the rich all belong to church” | [126] |
| 63. | Harvesting | [129] |
| 64. | “I was puttin salve on Jobe’s hands” | [130] |
| 65. | The hand that voted “the strait ticket” | [131] |
| 66. | “Some good men in case of labor trouble” | [133] |
| 67. | “Some of the little children are pretty” | [136] |
| 68. | “Jobe took what hay he could spare” | [138] |
| 69. | “They are kept so busy legislatin” | [139] |
| 70. | “A huntin them overhalls” | [142] |
| 71. | “I had sot down and went to churnin” | [143] |
| 72. | “The Dimicratic bloomers” | [146] |
| 73. | “‘Hello, mistur’” | [147] |
| 74. | “‘We ketch em a comin and we ketch em a goin’” | [148] |
| 75. | “I seen him a comin up the lane” | [151] |
| 76. | “The fust time for nigh onto twenty years” | [153] |
| 77. | “Billot jist laughed at him” | [155] |
| 78. | “Jobe he got mad and called Billot a Populist” | [156] |
| 79. | Ornamental tailpiece—sunset | [157] |
| 80. | “Lawyers a talkin and a laffin” | [159] |
| 81. | “‘Mistur Moore, how long has it been since you quit advocatin the use of good, old-fashioned greenbacks?’” | [161] |
| 82. | “‘Lawyer—Dimicratic lawyer and polertician’” | [164] |
| 83. | “He carried a banner” | [167] |
| 84. | “I got a straw and tickled his nose” | [171] |
| 85. | Ornamental tailpiece | [179] |
| 86. | “It was nearly mornin when I heerd the patriotic sounds of the fish-horn” | [181] |
| 87. | “He looked kind a pale” | [182] |
| 88. | “‘Give us a tune, Jobe’” | [183] |
| 89. | “‘This is not accordin to contract’” | [184] |
| 90. | “We hitched in front of Urfer’s big dry goods store” | [186] |
| 91. | “‘Ready’” | [187] |
| 92. | “‘I am a banker, sir, a banker‘” | [190] |
| 93. | “He made sich a fine argament for gold and agin other money” | [193] |
| 94. | Little Jane | [196] |
| 95. | “I could nearly see her little dimpled fingers pattin the airth around the roots of that little bush” | [197] |
| 96. | “‘Mamma, ... how pritty!’” | [198] |
| 97. | Ornamental tailpiece | [199] |
| 98. | “Jobe jist lays and moans” | [200] |
| 99. | “I have to chop all the wood” | [201] |
| 100. | “‘Out with it, Bill; we are prepared for the wust’” | [203] |
| 101. | “‘Ile tell you, Betsy. Ive made up my mind to try them Populists hereafter’” | [205] |
| 102. | “‘O, Lord, is there no other way to do?’” | [209] |
| 103. | “He drawed me over in his arms and kissed me” | [212] |
| 104. | “He was wipin his eyes and blowin his nose as he went towards town” | [213] |
| 105. | “Then sot down and cried and kept a cryin every little bit all mornin” | [214] |
| 106. | “They pulled me away from the winder” | [218] |
| 107. | “At all the gates around the big fence they had signs stuck up” | [221] |
| 108. | “I asked him for something to eat” | [222] |
| 109. | “‘Well, old man, sich things hadent ort to be’” | [225] |
| 110. | “I slipped over and put my face agin the glass” | [229] |
| 111. | “The feller turned around and looked black at me” | [233] |
| 112. | “I have to work hard in this place” | [236] |
| 113. | “One nice little place that I thought I would rent as soon as I got my first week’s pay” | [239] |
| 114. | “I worked there three weeks” | [241] |
| 115. | “Everything was cold and dark” | [242] |
| 116. | Initial M—Hattie Moore | [244] |
| 117. | “He teched me on the shoulder” | [247] |
| 118. | “I got onto a freight train” | [248] |
| 119. | “Pushing back the hair of the sick woman, leaned over and kissed her on the forehead” | [250] |
| 120. | “There lay Mrs. Gaskins” | [252] |
| 121. | “There again was the face of that little girl and the face of an old man” | [253] |
| 122. | “In the morning there was found a white-haired man” | [254] |
| 123. | Tailpiece—the rose-bush on the grave | [255] |
| 124. | Initial B—the editor | [256] |
| 125. | “Behold! See that money!” | [265] |
| 127. | The world’s oppressor | [274] |
