This little book is not supposed to contain any new information. It is made up of plain observations concerning people who live just around the corner. If the reader will bear in mind that only the people who live around the corner are discussed in this volume, there will be no chance for painful misunderstandings. I have no desire to rub the wrong way anyone who proves his true friendship by purchasing a copy of this Work. It may be advisable to explain that these Fables are written in the colloquial American language. The vocabulary employed is one that has become familiar to the ear, although it is seldom seen on the printed page. In other words, this volume contains a shameless amount of slang. If any part of it is unintelligible to the reader, he should be glad that he has escaped what seems to be an epidemic.
CONTENTS:
The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart
The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use
The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How
The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful
The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel
What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory
The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack
The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man
The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up
The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help
The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out
The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along
The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store On Monday Morning
The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills
The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place
The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last
How an Humble Beginner Moved from one Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit
The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum
Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Corresponding School of Wooing
The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things
The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand
The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper
The Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Year's Crop of Graduates
The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down
What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation
The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots
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