Chapters (149)
- The Autobiography of Methuselah
- EDITED BY
- JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
- ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY
- F. G. COOPER
- NEW YORK B. W. DODGE & COMPANY 1909
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF METHUSELAH
- CHAPTER I
- I AM BORN AND NAMED
- CHAPTER II
- EARLY INFLUENCES
- CHAPTER III
- SOME REMINISCENCES OF ADAM
- CHAPTER IV
- GRANDMOTHER EVE
- CHAPTER V
- SOME NOTES ON CAIN AND ABEL
- CHAPTER VI
- HE CONFESSES TO BEING A POET
- WHEN FATHER SPANKED ME
- THE JUNE-BUG
- ODE TO FEBRUARY
- TO PAN IN AUGUST
- MARINE ADVICES
- CHAPTER VII
- THE INTERNATIONAL MARINE AND ZOO FLOTATION COMPANY
- CHAPTER VIII
- ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE MASTODON
- CHAPTER IX
- AS TO WOMEN
- SOME LONG-FELT WANTS
- AS TO PROPHECIES
- MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS
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