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CONTENTS

With a Book 170

A Competitor 170

Generosity 172

Bats in Sunshine 172

A Word to the Unwise 173

On the Platform 175

Judge Not 176

Desperation 177

To Dog 177

To a Grabber 178

Memorial Day 179

A Dampened Ardor 179

Adair Welcker, Poet 180

To a Word-Warrior 180

A Culinary Candidate 183

To One Acquitted 184

Content 185

At the Observatory 185

The Oleomargarine Man 187

The Genesis of Crime 189

Llewellyn Powell 190

The Sunset Gun 192

The "Viduate Dame" 194

Four of a Kind 195

Reconciliation 197

A Vision of Climate 197

A "Mass" Meeting 199

The New Dennis 200

A Rational Anthem 201

Incivism 202

Famine in Prosperity 202

An Epigrammatist 203

Figleaf 203

For President, Leland Stanford 205

For Mayor 206

A Mine for Reformers 207

In Pickle 207

James Montague, Poet 209

A Cheating Preacher 209

A Crocodile 211

The American Party 211

Uncoloneled 213

The Gates Ajar 213

To A Bully 215

A Land Fight 218

Compliance 219

Arboriculture 219

A Holiday 220

Rejected 221

Judex Judicatus 222

On the Wedding of an Aeronaut 224

A Hasty Inference 224

A Voluptuary 226

Ad Cattonum 226

The National Guardsman 228

A Rear Elevation 229