Chapters (109)
- The Umpire
- RIPPLING RHYMES
- To Suit The Times All Sorts of Themes Embracin' Some Gay Some Sad Some not so Bad
- AS WRITTEN BY
- Chicago A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1913
- To GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
- ONE MOMENT, PLEASE!
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- The Umpire . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece The Gloomy Fan The Buccaneers The Sleeper Wakes The Conqueror The Old Timer
- MORNING IN KANSAS
- EDITORIAL INFLUENCE
- FARM MACHINERY
- THE STRONG MEN
- THE SNOWY DAY
- THE POOR MAN'S CLUB
- WORDS AND DEEDS
- A DAY OF REST
- USE YOUR HEAD
- THE GLOOMY FAN
- The Gloomy Fan
- THE PURIST
- QUALIFICATIONS
- THE POMPOUS MAN
- INEFFICIENT MEN
- LIFE'S INJUSTICE
- THE POLITICIAN
- RANDOM SHOTS
- LOOK PLEASANT, PLEASE!
- COURAGE
- PLAY BALL
- THE OLD SONGS
- GUESSING VS. KNOWING
- WHEN WOMEN VOTE
- THE AGENT AT THE DOOR
- GOOD AND BAD TIMES
- BUCCANEERS (The Pirate of 1612)
- (The Pirate of 1912)
- Buccaneers
- ST. PATRICK'S DAY
- NAMING THE BABY
- WON AT LAST I.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- THE GREATEST THING
- THE UMPIRE
- THE TWO MERCHANTS
- TODAY'S MOTTO
- SOME PROTESTS
- THE WORKERS
- THE UTILITARIAN
- FIRESIDE ADVENTURES
- HUNTING A JOB
- OLD AND NEW
- THE HANDY EDITOR
- THE SLEEPER WAKES
- The Sleeper Wakes
- IN HORSELAND
- INAUGURATION DAY, 1913
- PRAYER OF THE HEATHEN
- THEORY AND PRACTICE
- FOOL AND SAGE
- THEN AND NOW
- THE SLEEPER
- FOOLING AROUND
- GUESS WHO!
- TRYING AGAIN
- ICONOCLASM
- GATHERING ROSES
- THE FUTURE SPORT
- TAKING ADVICE
- POST-MORTEM INDUSTRY
- THE CONQUEROR
- The Conqueror
- THE TRUTHFUL MERCHANT
- STANDING PAT
- THE OUTCAST
- ODE TO KANSAS
- DOMESTIC HAPPINESS
- CELEBRITIES
- THE VIRTUOUS EDITOR
- THIS DISMAL AGE
- BOOST THINGS
- THE ADVENTURER
- THEY ALL COME BACK
- HOME BUILDERS
- FAILURE AND SUCCESS
- THE OPEN ROAD Romance
- Reality
- THE MILLIONAIRES
- LITTLE MISTAKES
- EASY MORALITY
- THE CRITIC
- THE OLD TIMER
- The Old Timer
- THE BRIGHT FACE
- LADIES AND GENTS
- AUTUMN JOYS
- THE LAND OF BORES
- SKILLED LABOR
- AN EDITORIAL SOLILOQUY
- YOUTHFUL GRIEVANCES
- SUNDAY
- JOHN BARLEYCORN
- CHRISTMAS DAY
- A CRANK'S THANKSGIVING
- THE BRIEF VISIT
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