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Joaquin Miller. That Faithful Wife of Idaho 3

"Eli Perkins." Doctors' Wit and Humor 6

John Hay. The Fairs 13

Bret Harte. The Society upon the Stanislaus 23

To the Pliocene Skull 26

Her Letter 29

Plain Language from Truthful James; or, the Heathen Chinee 32

William L. Alden. An Unnecessary Invention 34

Robert Henry Newell. The American Traveler 38

Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Portsmouth Originals and the Railroad 41

Chauncey M. Depew. The New Netherlanders 53