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CONTENTS

In Upper San Francisco 230

Nimrod 232

The New Decalogue 233

Ultra Crepidam 234

Censor Literarum 234

Borrowed Brains 236

Ye Fyghtynge Seventh 237

Indicted 238

Over the Border 239

To an Insolent Attorney 240

Accepted 243

A Promised Fast Train 243

From the Death-Column 244

The Farmer's Prayer 245

One of the Saints 246

A Military Incident 247

Substance or Shadow 248

The Committee on Public Morals 250

A Playwright 250

The Leader of the Minority 252

California 253

George C. Perkins 254

To Either 255

Disappointment 257

The Valley of the Shadow of Theft 258

Down among the Dead Men 259

The Last Man 261

Arbor Day 263

The Piute 263

Fame 265

One of the Redeemed 266

A Critic 268

A Question of Eligibility 269

Fleet Strother 272

Reciprocity 272

Californian Summer Pictures 276

Slander 278

James L. Flood 278

Three Candidates for Senator 279

A Growler 280

Ad Moodium 281

A Spade 283

The Van Nessiad 284

Valedictory 286

A Fish Commissioner 289

To a Stray Dog 289

In His Hand 290

A Demagogue 291

Ignis Fatuus 292

From Top to Bottom 293

An Idler 295

The Dead King 296