People You Know
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1. Front matter2. The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart3. The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use4. The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How5. The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful6. The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel7. What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory8. The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack9. The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man10. The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up11. The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help12. The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out13. The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along14. The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store on Monday Morning15. The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills16. The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place17. The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last18. How an Humble Beginner Moved from One Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit19. The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum20. Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Correspondence School of Wooing21. The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things22. The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand23. The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper24. Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Years Crop of Graduates25. The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down26. What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation27. The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots