A laugh a day keeps the doctor away§ 325 A Two Part SerialReading editionChapter navigation371 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterFOREWORDCONTENTS [Topically Arranged]§ 1 The Untraveled Stranger§ 2 The Prudent Mr. Finnerty§ 3 Enough for Wilkins§ 4 Why the Major Didn’t Suit§ 5 Grandfather Laughed at This One§ 6 The Day Denver Was Surprised§ 7 And Worth the Money, Too!§ 8 The Spirit of Seventy-six, with Improvements§ 9 Protecting the Gentler Sex§ 10 Not at All Singular§ 11 Strictly in Confidence§ 12 He Didn’t Believe in Signs§ 13 Advice to Charlie Chaplin§ 14 What Aunt Myra Desired§ 15 When the Dawn of Understanding Came§ 16 As Translated into the English§ 17 Absolutely no Hurry about It§ 18 One Who Desired to Know§ 19 The Poor Aim of Mr. Zeno§ 20 Curing the Great Thirst§ 21 The Ways of the Army§ 22 Remote from the Real Centers§ 23 The Way of the Neighborhood§ 24 A Radical Difference Noted§ 25 Where the Partnership Dissolved§ 26 Absolutely Unfitted for the Rôle§ 27 The Careful MacTavish§ 28 The Sway of Eloquence§ 29 The Unuttered Wish§ 30 The Gift of Tongues§ 31 He Lacked Storage Space§ 32 The Voice of the Purist§ 33 There Spoke Envy’s Voice§ 34 The Treacherous Warehouse§ 35 A Scotchman’s Conscience§ 36 Establishing an Identity§ 37 An Earnest Cry for Help§ 38 The Pride of Creative Genius§ 39 The Prompt Response§ 40 Once Every Ten Years§ 41 One Detail Was Missing§ 42 In Permanent Storage§ 43 What Might Be Called an Active Man§ 44 Sauce for the Goose§ 45 Driven Beyond His Strength§ 46 The Custom of the Country§ 47 Sight Unseen, As It Were§ 48 A Born Snob§ 49 Maybe Not on the Second Day, Either§ 50 Calling a Spade a Spade§ 51 Poor Aim but Good Intent§ 52 There Spake True Friendship§ 53 The Tools Were Lacking§ 54 A Tribute to Moderation§ 55 The Instantaneous Diagnosis§ 56 In Fact, a Positive Fad§ 57 Something Like a Wampus, Probably§ 58 An Education in Peril§ 59 A Lover of Statistics§ 60 History in the Un-Making§ 61 Solving a Dark Mystery§ 62 Enough of a Good Thing§ 63 Absolutely Bored by the Whole Thing§ 64 The Question Categorical§ 65 Before or After Taking?§ 66 A Time for All Things§ 67 Tuesday Would Be Just Like Sunday§ 68 A Sort of Circulating Medium, as It Were§ 69 A Service to the Whole Land§ 70 Deportment Taught by Wire§ 71 Speaking of Carrier Pigeons§ 72 Total Loss!§ 73 With All Good Wishes§ 74 A Start from Humble Beginnings§ 75 The Confusing Geography of Jersey§ 76 With Credit to S. Blythe§ 77 When the H. C. of L. Came Down§ 78 How to Beat the System§ 79 An Echo from 1865§ 80 There’d Be a Popular Uprising§ 81 From the Book of Moses§ 82 Almost Startling, Really§ 83 A Violent Indisposition§ 84 The Simplest of Remedies§ 85 Proving There’s Something in a Name§ 86 Question: How Far Did George Go?§ 87 Natural Proof§ 88 A Domicile for All Eternity§ 89 The Man Who Was Thursday§ 90 The Least of His Worries§ 91 This One Stood the Test of Time§ 92 The Prudent Bride§ 93 As a Favor to the Railroad§ 94 Where the Real Fault Lay§ 95 An Appeal to the Senses§ 96 The Truth from the Inside§ 97 The Fate of the Saloon§ 98 What the Case Called For§ 99 The Light that Failed§ 100 He’d Have Preferred Union Hours§ 101 The Perils of Pranking§ 102 The Really Important Point§ 103 The Proper Remedy at Last§ 104 An Anniversary to Be Remembered§ 105 The Handiwork of the Amateur§ 106 The Forethoughted Widow§ 107 Bumpy Times for the Late Lamented§ 108 The Genesis of an Old Favorite§ 109 “A Rose by Any Other Name . . .”§ 110 A Detail of Figures§ 111 Provision for the Future§ 112 The Life of the Party, as It Were§ 113 Something to Look Forward To§ 114 Me Lady’s One Weak Point§ 115 At the Crossing of the Ways§ 116 The Mysterious Stranger§ 117 A Chronic Loser§ 118 The Call of the Far East§ 119 He Wouldn’t Commit Himself Yet§ 120 A Seasonable and Timely Suggestion§ 121 Not Vouched For as Absolutely Authentic§ 122 One Time When the Colonel Balked§ 123 And No Steam Calliope, Either§ 124 Absolutely Nothing to Debate§ 125 Keeping It in the Family§ 126 Speaking, as It Were, with Frankness§ 127 Glass of Fashion and Mould of Form!§ 128 Down to the Solid Portions§ 129 An Anti-Expectoration Advocate§ 130 Putting Depew in His Place§ 131 How Larry Boosted the Game§ 132 When Goldstein Really Cut Loose§ 133 Tired of Dealing with Crooks§ 134 By Way of Compromise§ 135 The Lady Made Good at Last§ 136 The Low-Down on the Saw-Milling Business§ 137 There Spoke a Sympathizing Soul§ 138 The Inevitable Consequences§ 139 Not Listed among the Leading Ones Anyhow§ 140 A Warning to the Yanks§ 141 In the Nature of a Shock§ 142 His Worst Fears Confirmed§ 143 Only Three Had Remained§ 144 She Who Sought for Peace§ 145 An Exception for a Native Son§ 146 Without Professional Assistance§ 147 Making It Harder Than Ever§ 148 Why They Called Him Speedy§ 149 There Would Be Three in All§ 150 The Colonel’s Checking System§ 151 The Reunion of the Aged§ 152 Probably Stewed Kidneys Ran Third§ 153 Pretty Pol!§ 154 The Unforgivable Sin§ 155 The Burden of the Black Brother§ 156 Openings in the Higher Branches§ 157 A Distinction and a Difference§ 158 The Prediction That Came True§ 159 It Wasn’t His Move, Either§ 160 Spreading the Feast for the Stranger§ 161 A Very Natural Request§ 162 The Voice of a Prophet§ 163 The Trifles of an Earlier Day§ 164 In Accordance with the Ritual§ 165 A Customer Who Wasn’t Wanted§ 166 The Surest System Yet§ 167 All According to Specifications§ 168 The Reason the Artist Quit§ 169 To the Depths of Dogology§ 170 Time Was No Object§ 171 A Diagnosis Made Offhand§ 172 Remodeling the Calendar§ 173 Of a Careless Nature§ 174 The Light That Failed§ 175 Sir Izaak Walton in Black§ 176 Doing Something for the Patient§ 177 The Real Point of the Joke§ 178 The Mystery of Wednesday§ 179 The Cockney and the Lady§ 180 Neither Here Nor There§ 181 One of the Marvels of Science§ 182 The Proper End of a Caddy§ 183 One Way to Beat the Game§ 184 Absolutely No Reason for It§ 185 The Withdrawal of the Candidate§ 186 A Peacemaker Who Blessed Himself§ 187 The Long Wait at Burlington§ 188 Where Jimmy’s Education Really Was Shy§ 189 The Made-in-England Substitute§ 190 Practically Destitute§ 191 Assigning G. B. S. to His Place§ 192 A Voice from the Void§ 193 Taking Nothing from Nothing§ 194 The Fate of Poor Harry§ 195 A Wholesale Order§ 196 This “Yes” and That “Yes”§ 197 Satisfactory in Every Respect§ 198 Precisely the Right Word§ 199 Touching on London Weather§ 200 The Detour in the Bridal Path§ 201 Tuesday May Have Been Worse§ 202 A Touch of Summer Complaint§ 203 He Never Went There Anyhow§ 204 Where Republicans Are Scarce§ 205 The Sole Drawback to Utter Success§ 206 Sure Damnation for Somebody§ 207 The Final Smash§ 208 Making It Unanimous§ 209 Advice from Expert Sources§ 210 A Seeker after Hidden Facts§ 211 The Curfew in Nebraska§ 212 The Reward of the Early Riser§ 213 A Competition Which Was Open to All§ 214 Not the Order of the Bath§ 215 The Embarrassing Broad A§ 216 Tributes to the Late Lamented Ones§ 217 And the Point of Order Was Sustained§ 218 The Light That Lies in Bankers’ Eyes§ 219 A Call for the Prohibited Stuff§ 220 The Perfect Introduction§ 221 An Answer Right Off the Ice§ 222 Where He Could Go for Thirty Cents§ 223 Overlooking No Side Bets§ 224 The Lick That Won the Victory§ 225 No Closed Season on Fanchon§ 226 Down and Out for the Count§ 227 The Plan of the Shut-In§ 228 The Quick-Thinking Referee§ 229 George, the Forbearing§ 230 An Old One and Its Younger Half-Brother§ 231 Corroboration from On High§ 232 Suffering from a Relapse§ 233 One Old Enough to Merit Respect§ 234 The Retort Courteous§ 235 The Proper Point of View§ 236 Between the Cloves and the Hiccough§ 237 War Upon the Reptiles§ 238 One of Those Nature-Faking Yarns§ 239 The Unaccommodating Kansan§ 240 The Happy Return§ 241 Bringing in the Sheaves§ 242 Regarding the Brooklyn Boys§ 243 When O. Henry Met the Poet Scout§ 244 Our Institutions Approved§ 245 The Annoyed Mr. Goldstein§ 246 Darkness Before the Dawn§ 247 A Scandal in the Family§ 248 Aiding the Sheriff’s Vision§ 249 The Affair in Half Moon Street§ 250 Everything Coming Out Just Right§ 251 Delivered Through a Middleman§ 252 Back to God’s Country§ 253 Hail and Farewell!§ 254 Calculated to Work Improvements§ 255 Improvements in the Language§ 256 An Abiding Delusion, Too§ 257 Bordering on the Unreasonable§ 258 A Slight for the Kellys§ 259 The Luck of the Absentee§ 260 Everything Happens for the Worst§ 261 Spreading the Glad Tidings§ 262 Out of Business Hours§ 263 In the Ascending Scale§ 264 A Family of Imitators§ 265 Two Conundrums and a Tragedy§ 266 In the Very Lap of Comfort§ 267 Making It a Sweepstakes§ 268 Filling a Long-Felt Want§ 269 Spoken from the Heart Out§ 270 Where Proper Relief Lay§ 271 No Repetitions for Hubby§ 272 There Was No Hurry about It§ 273 An Attack on the Affiliated Talent§ 274 The Deceased Had Been Forehanded§ 275 How the Reform Worked§ 276 Where Higher Education Would Have Landed Him§ 277 Scarcely a Lucrative Calling§ 278 A Plea for Studied Action§ 279 The Current Rate on Suckers§ 280 Going and Coming§ 281 The Evils of Intemperance§ 282 Not a Family of Musicians§ 283 The Reverend Had a Little Lamb§ 284 God Save the King’s English!§ 285 The Kink in Mr. Jones§ 286 Better than Believing in Santa Claus§ 287 The Curse of an Active Mind§ 288 A Way Out of the Difficulty§ 289 Stylish Language, Indeed!§ 290 The Original Package§ 291 The Voice of a Husband§ 292 The Passive Rôle§ 293 The Suggestion of a Scandal§ 294 A Warning Word to a Friend§ 295 Obstructing the Highway§ 296 In Part Settlement§ 297 The Apostolic Switch§ 298 In One of His Tamer Moments§ 299 That Thick Hotel Crockery§ 300 A Reduction for Cash§ 301 Extending Down to the Very Bottom§ 302 Belated but Sincere§ 303 An Expert Opinion§ 304 A Well-Merited Rebuke§ 305 For Business, Not Pleasure§ 306 Let There Be Light!§ 307 A Little Bed Time Tale§ 308 A Growing Suspicion§ 309 Caught in the Jam§ 310 And Getting Worse All the Time§ 311 A Temptation to His Majesty§ 312 Giving the Lady the Air§ 313 Complete in Every Detail§ 314 A Bare Statement§ 315 One Right Behind Another§ 316 How Time Flies, to Be Sure!§ 317 Honor Where Honor Was Due§ 318 On Her Own Motive Power§ 319 Who’s Who in Newark§ 320 Hives, Perhaps, But No Honey§ 321 A Mystery Revealed§ 322 It Very Often Proves Fatal§ 323 Proving That Figures Don’t Lie§ 324 The Exact Locality§ 325 A Two Part SerialPart 1Part 2§ 326 A Tribute to the Father§ 327 The Personal Touch Was Lacking§ 328 Straight from the Scriptures§ 329 The Real Fromage, in Fact§ 330 Practically No Reason for It§ 331 He Couldn’t Stick to Any One Thing§ 332 Reserve Ammunition§ 333 Dust to Dust§ 334 No Trouble to Show Goods§ 335 Fun for Little Isadore§ 336 An Awful Blow for Mr. Barnum§ 337 An Over Sensitive Deer§ 338 The Proper Rate of Exchange§ 339 Classifying the Delinquent§ 340 A Touch of the Swedish§ 341 Calling for Night Work, Too§ 342 Returning in the Regular Manner§ 343 Or in Other Words, Slightly Confused§ 344 A Squirrel without a Peer§ 345 The Triumph of the Novice§ 346 The Gift of Tongues§ 347 Inquiry Regarding the Stranger§ 348 When Appearances Were Deceitful§ 349 The Curious Ways of Sheep§ 350 Where They Take Things as They Come§ 351 A Mystery Unraveled§ 352 Already Showing Signs of Use§ 353 A Hint to the Wise Is Ample§ 354 Just Before the Shooting Started§ 355 The Limit of Helplessness§ 356 The Most Unkindest Cut of All§ 357 The Position of a Young Man§ 358 No Detail to Be Overlooked§ 359 At the Extreme Rear§ 360 He Knew Where to Find Paw§ 361 Consolation for the Imperilled One§ 362 Examples of the Higher Criticism§ 363 The Prize Smell of the Circus§ 364 A Tribute—with One Reservation§ 365 Staving Off the Fatal Blow§ 366 Special Extra—To Be Read Only in Leap YearPrevious chapter ←§ 324 The Exact LocalityNext chapter →Part 1All chapters and sections (371)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsFOREWORDCONTENTS [Topically Arranged]§ 1 The Untraveled Stranger§ 2 The Prudent Mr. Finnerty§ 3 Enough for Wilkins§ 4 Why the Major Didn’t Suit§ 5 Grandfather Laughed at This One§ 6 The Day Denver Was Surprised§ 7 And Worth the Money, Too!§ 8 The Spirit of Seventy-six, with Improvements§ 9 Protecting the Gentler Sex§ 10 Not at All Singular§ 11 Strictly in Confidence§ 12 He Didn’t Believe in Signs§ 13 Advice to Charlie Chaplin§ 14 What Aunt Myra Desired§ 15 When the Dawn of Understanding Came§ 16 As Translated into the English§ 17 Absolutely no Hurry about It§ 18 One Who Desired to Know§ 19 The Poor Aim of Mr. Zeno§ 20 Curing the Great Thirst§ 21 The Ways of the Army§ 22 Remote from the Real Centers§ 23 The Way of the Neighborhood§ 24 A Radical Difference Noted§ 25 Where the Partnership Dissolved§ 26 Absolutely Unfitted for the Rôle§ 27 The Careful MacTavish§ 28 The Sway of Eloquence§ 29 The Unuttered Wish§ 30 The Gift of Tongues§ 31 He Lacked Storage Space§ 32 The Voice of the Purist§ 33 There Spoke Envy’s Voice§ 34 The Treacherous Warehouse§ 35 A Scotchman’s Conscience§ 36 Establishing an Identity§ 37 An Earnest Cry for Help§ 38 The Pride of Creative Genius§ 39 The Prompt Response§ 40 Once Every Ten Years§ 41 One Detail Was Missing§ 42 In Permanent Storage§ 43 What Might Be Called an Active Man§ 44 Sauce for the Goose§ 45 Driven Beyond His Strength§ 46 The Custom of the Country§ 47 Sight Unseen, As It Were§ 48 A Born Snob§ 49 Maybe Not on the Second Day, Either§ 50 Calling a Spade a Spade§ 51 Poor Aim but Good Intent§ 52 There Spake True Friendship§ 53 The Tools Were Lacking§ 54 A Tribute to Moderation§ 55 The Instantaneous Diagnosis§ 56 In Fact, a Positive Fad§ 57 Something Like a Wampus, Probably§ 58 An Education in Peril§ 59 A Lover of Statistics§ 60 History in the Un-Making§ 61 Solving a Dark Mystery§ 62 Enough of a Good Thing§ 63 Absolutely Bored by the Whole Thing§ 64 The Question Categorical§ 65 Before or After Taking?§ 66 A Time for All Things§ 67 Tuesday Would Be Just Like Sunday§ 68 A Sort of Circulating Medium, as It Were§ 69 A Service to the Whole Land§ 70 Deportment Taught by Wire§ 71 Speaking of Carrier Pigeons§ 72 Total Loss!§ 73 With All Good Wishes§ 74 A Start from Humble Beginnings§ 75 The Confusing Geography of Jersey§ 76 With Credit to S. Blythe§ 77 When the H. C. of L. Came Down§ 78 How to Beat the System§ 79 An Echo from 1865§ 80 There’d Be a Popular Uprising§ 81 From the Book of Moses§ 82 Almost Startling, Really§ 83 A Violent Indisposition§ 84 The Simplest of Remedies§ 85 Proving There’s Something in a Name§ 86 Question: How Far Did George Go?§ 87 Natural Proof§ 88 A Domicile for All Eternity§ 89 The Man Who Was Thursday§ 90 The Least of His Worries§ 91 This One Stood the Test of Time§ 92 The Prudent Bride§ 93 As a Favor to the Railroad§ 94 Where the Real Fault Lay§ 95 An Appeal to the Senses§ 96 The Truth from the Inside§ 97 The Fate of the Saloon§ 98 What the Case Called For§ 99 The Light that Failed§ 100 He’d Have Preferred Union Hours§ 101 The Perils of Pranking§ 102 The Really Important Point§ 103 The Proper Remedy at Last§ 104 An Anniversary to Be Remembered§ 105 The Handiwork of the Amateur§ 106 The Forethoughted Widow§ 107 Bumpy Times for the Late Lamented§ 108 The Genesis of an Old Favorite§ 109 “A Rose by Any Other Name . . .”§ 110 A Detail of Figures§ 111 Provision for the Future§ 112 The Life of the Party, as It Were§ 113 Something to Look Forward To§ 114 Me Lady’s One Weak Point§ 115 At the Crossing of the Ways§ 116 The Mysterious Stranger§ 117 A Chronic Loser§ 118 The Call of the Far East§ 119 He Wouldn’t Commit Himself Yet§ 120 A Seasonable and Timely Suggestion§ 121 Not Vouched For as Absolutely Authentic§ 122 One Time When the Colonel Balked§ 123 And No Steam Calliope, Either§ 124 Absolutely Nothing to Debate§ 125 Keeping It in the Family§ 126 Speaking, as It Were, with Frankness§ 127 Glass of Fashion and Mould of Form!§ 128 Down to the Solid Portions§ 129 An Anti-Expectoration Advocate§ 130 Putting Depew in His Place§ 131 How Larry Boosted the Game§ 132 When Goldstein Really Cut Loose§ 133 Tired of Dealing with Crooks§ 134 By Way of Compromise§ 135 The Lady Made Good at Last§ 136 The Low-Down on the Saw-Milling Business§ 137 There Spoke a Sympathizing Soul§ 138 The Inevitable Consequences§ 139 Not Listed among the Leading Ones Anyhow§ 140 A Warning to the Yanks§ 141 In the Nature of a Shock§ 142 His Worst Fears Confirmed§ 143 Only Three Had Remained§ 144 She Who Sought for Peace§ 145 An Exception for a Native Son§ 146 Without Professional Assistance§ 147 Making It Harder Than Ever§ 148 Why They Called Him Speedy§ 149 There Would Be Three in All§ 150 The Colonel’s Checking System§ 151 The Reunion of the Aged§ 152 Probably Stewed Kidneys Ran Third§ 153 Pretty Pol!§ 154 The Unforgivable Sin§ 155 The Burden of the Black Brother§ 156 Openings in the Higher Branches§ 157 A Distinction and a Difference§ 158 The Prediction That Came True§ 159 It Wasn’t His Move, Either§ 160 Spreading the Feast for the Stranger§ 161 A Very Natural Request§ 162 The Voice of a Prophet§ 163 The Trifles of an Earlier Day§ 164 In Accordance with the Ritual§ 165 A Customer Who Wasn’t Wanted§ 166 The Surest System Yet§ 167 All According to Specifications§ 168 The Reason the Artist Quit§ 169 To the Depths of Dogology§ 170 Time Was No Object§ 171 A Diagnosis Made Offhand§ 172 Remodeling the Calendar§ 173 Of a Careless Nature§ 174 The Light That Failed§ 175 Sir Izaak Walton in Black§ 176 Doing Something for the Patient§ 177 The Real Point of the Joke§ 178 The Mystery of Wednesday§ 179 The Cockney and the Lady§ 180 Neither Here Nor There§ 181 One of the Marvels of Science§ 182 The Proper End of a Caddy§ 183 One Way to Beat the Game§ 184 Absolutely No Reason for It§ 185 The Withdrawal of the Candidate§ 186 A Peacemaker Who Blessed Himself§ 187 The Long Wait at Burlington§ 188 Where Jimmy’s Education Really Was Shy§ 189 The Made-in-England Substitute§ 190 Practically Destitute§ 191 Assigning G. B. S. to His Place§ 192 A Voice from the Void§ 193 Taking Nothing from Nothing§ 194 The Fate of Poor Harry§ 195 A Wholesale Order§ 196 This “Yes” and That “Yes”§ 197 Satisfactory in Every Respect§ 198 Precisely the Right Word§ 199 Touching on London Weather§ 200 The Detour in the Bridal Path§ 201 Tuesday May Have Been Worse§ 202 A Touch of Summer Complaint§ 203 He Never Went There Anyhow§ 204 Where Republicans Are Scarce§ 205 The Sole Drawback to Utter Success§ 206 Sure Damnation for Somebody§ 207 The Final Smash§ 208 Making It Unanimous§ 209 Advice from Expert Sources§ 210 A Seeker after Hidden Facts§ 211 The Curfew in Nebraska§ 212 The Reward of the Early Riser§ 213 A Competition Which Was Open to All§ 214 Not the Order of the Bath§ 215 The Embarrassing Broad A§ 216 Tributes to the Late Lamented Ones§ 217 And the Point of Order Was Sustained§ 218 The Light That Lies in Bankers’ Eyes§ 219 A Call for the Prohibited Stuff§ 220 The Perfect Introduction§ 221 An Answer Right Off the Ice§ 222 Where He Could Go for Thirty Cents§ 223 Overlooking No Side Bets§ 224 The Lick That Won the Victory§ 225 No Closed Season on Fanchon§ 226 Down and Out for the Count§ 227 The Plan of the Shut-In§ 228 The Quick-Thinking Referee§ 229 George, the Forbearing§ 230 An Old One and Its Younger Half-Brother§ 231 Corroboration from On High§ 232 Suffering from a Relapse§ 233 One Old Enough to Merit Respect§ 234 The Retort Courteous§ 235 The Proper Point of View§ 236 Between the Cloves and the Hiccough§ 237 War Upon the Reptiles§ 238 One of Those Nature-Faking Yarns§ 239 The Unaccommodating Kansan§ 240 The Happy Return§ 241 Bringing in the Sheaves§ 242 Regarding the Brooklyn Boys§ 243 When O. Henry Met the Poet Scout§ 244 Our Institutions Approved§ 245 The Annoyed Mr. Goldstein§ 246 Darkness Before the Dawn§ 247 A Scandal in the Family§ 248 Aiding the Sheriff’s Vision§ 249 The Affair in Half Moon Street§ 250 Everything Coming Out Just Right§ 251 Delivered Through a Middleman§ 252 Back to God’s Country§ 253 Hail and Farewell!§ 254 Calculated to Work Improvements§ 255 Improvements in the Language§ 256 An Abiding Delusion, Too§ 257 Bordering on the Unreasonable§ 258 A Slight for the Kellys§ 259 The Luck of the Absentee§ 260 Everything Happens for the Worst§ 261 Spreading the Glad Tidings§ 262 Out of Business Hours§ 263 In the Ascending Scale§ 264 A Family of Imitators§ 265 Two Conundrums and a Tragedy§ 266 In the Very Lap of Comfort§ 267 Making It a Sweepstakes§ 268 Filling a Long-Felt Want§ 269 Spoken from the Heart Out§ 270 Where Proper Relief Lay§ 271 No Repetitions for Hubby§ 272 There Was No Hurry about It§ 273 An Attack on the Affiliated Talent§ 274 The Deceased Had Been Forehanded§ 275 How the Reform Worked§ 276 Where Higher Education Would Have Landed Him§ 277 Scarcely a Lucrative Calling§ 278 A Plea for Studied Action§ 279 The Current Rate on Suckers§ 280 Going and Coming§ 281 The Evils of Intemperance§ 282 Not a Family of Musicians§ 283 The Reverend Had a Little Lamb§ 284 God Save the King’s English!§ 285 The Kink in Mr. Jones§ 286 Better than Believing in Santa Claus§ 287 The Curse of an Active Mind§ 288 A Way Out of the Difficulty§ 289 Stylish Language, Indeed!§ 290 The Original Package§ 291 The Voice of a Husband§ 292 The Passive Rôle§ 293 The Suggestion of a Scandal§ 294 A Warning Word to a Friend§ 295 Obstructing the Highway§ 296 In Part Settlement§ 297 The Apostolic Switch§ 298 In One of His Tamer Moments§ 299 That Thick Hotel Crockery§ 300 A Reduction for Cash§ 301 Extending Down to the Very Bottom§ 302 Belated but Sincere§ 303 An Expert Opinion§ 304 A Well-Merited Rebuke§ 305 For Business, Not Pleasure§ 306 Let There Be Light!§ 307 A Little Bed Time Tale§ 308 A Growing Suspicion§ 309 Caught in the Jam§ 310 And Getting Worse All the Time§ 311 A Temptation to His Majesty§ 312 Giving the Lady the Air§ 313 Complete in Every Detail§ 314 A Bare Statement§ 315 One Right Behind Another§ 316 How Time Flies, to Be Sure!§ 317 Honor Where Honor Was Due§ 318 On Her Own Motive Power§ 319 Who’s Who in Newark§ 320 Hives, Perhaps, But No Honey§ 321 A Mystery Revealed§ 322 It Very Often Proves Fatal§ 323 Proving That Figures Don’t Lie§ 324 The Exact Locality§ 325 A Two Part SerialParts12Part 2 · Other sections§ 326 A Tribute to the Father§ 327 The Personal Touch Was Lacking§ 328 Straight from the Scriptures§ 329 The Real Fromage, in Fact§ 330 Practically No Reason for It§ 331 He Couldn’t Stick to Any One Thing§ 332 Reserve Ammunition§ 333 Dust to Dust§ 334 No Trouble to Show Goods§ 335 Fun for Little Isadore§ 336 An Awful Blow for Mr. Barnum§ 337 An Over Sensitive Deer§ 338 The Proper Rate of Exchange§ 339 Classifying the Delinquent§ 340 A Touch of the Swedish§ 341 Calling for Night Work, Too§ 342 Returning in the Regular Manner§ 343 Or in Other Words, Slightly Confused§ 344 A Squirrel without a Peer§ 345 The Triumph of the Novice§ 346 The Gift of Tongues§ 347 Inquiry Regarding the Stranger§ 348 When Appearances Were Deceitful§ 349 The Curious Ways of Sheep§ 350 Where They Take Things as They Come§ 351 A Mystery Unraveled§ 352 Already Showing Signs of Use§ 353 A Hint to the Wise Is Ample§ 354 Just Before the Shooting Started§ 355 The Limit of Helplessness§ 356 The Most Unkindest Cut of All§ 357 The Position of a Young Man§ 358 No Detail to Be Overlooked§ 359 At the Extreme Rear§ 360 He Knew Where to Find Paw§ 361 Consolation for the Imperilled One§ 362 Examples of the Higher Criticism§ 363 The Prize Smell of the Circus§ 364 A Tribute—with One Reservation§ 365 Staving Off the Fatal Blow§ 366 Special Extra—To Be Read Only in Leap YearThis story naturally resolves itself into two parts. 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