PREFACE
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| SOME FICTION |
| One More Unfortunate |
| The Strong Young Man of Colusa |
| The Glad New Year |
| The Late Dowling, Senior |
| “Love’s Labour Lost” |
| A Comforter |
| Little Isaac |
| The Heels of Her |
| A Tale of Two Feet |
| The Scolliver Pig |
| Mr. Hunker’s Mourner |
| A Bit of Chivalry |
| The Head of the Family |
| Deathbed Repentance |
| The New Church that was not Built |
| A Tale of the Great Quake |
| Johnny |
| The Child’s Provider |
| Boys who Began Wrong |
| A Kansas Incident |
| Mr. Grile’s Girl |
| His Railway |
| Mr. Gish Makes a Present |
| A Cow-County Pleasantry |
| The Optimist, and What He Died Of |
| The Root of Education |
| Retribution |
| The Faithful Wife |
| Margaret the Childless |
| The Discomfited Demon |
| The Mistake of a Life |
| L. S. |
The Baffled Asian
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| TALL TALK |
| A Call to Dinner |
| On Death and Immortality |
| Music—Muscular and Mechanical |
| The Good Young Man |
| The Average Parson |
| Did We Eat One Another? |
| Your Friend’s Friend |
| Le Diable est aux Vaches |
| Angels and Angles |
| A Wingless Insect |
| Pork on the Hoof |
| The Young Person |
| A Certain Popular Fallacy |
| Pastoral Journalism |
| Mendicity’s Mistake |
| Insects |
| Picnicking considered as a Mistake |
| Thanksgiving Day |
| Flogging |
| Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press |
| Charity |
| The Study of Human Nature |
Additional Talk—Done in the Country
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Current Journalings
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| OBITUARY NOTICES |
| CHRISTIANS |
PAGANS
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MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL
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LAUGHORISMS
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“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA
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| POESY |
| Ye Idyll of ye Hippopopotamus |
| Epitaph on George Francis Train |
| Jerusalem, Old and New |
| Communing with Nature |
| Conservatism and Progress |
| Inter Arma Silent Leges |
| Quintessence |
| Resurgam |