The Experimental Couple and the Three Off-Shoots, 215 What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation, 212 The Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down, 203 The Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to This Year's Crop of Graduates, 194 The Effort to Convert the Work Horse Into a High-Stepper, 185 The Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand, 175 The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things, 167 Two Young People, Two Photographers and the Corresponding School of Wooing, 158 The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum, 149 How an Humble Beginner Moved from one Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit, 142 The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last, 133 The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place, 129 The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills, 119 The Young Napoleon Who Went Back to the Store On Monday Morning, 110 The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along, 107 The Regular Kind of a Place and the Usual Way It Turned Out, 99 The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help, 90 The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up, 81 The Batch of Letters, or One Day With a Busy Man, 72 The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. What Father Bumped Into at the Culture Factory, 54 The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel, 46 The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful, 37 The One or Two Points of Difference Between Learning and Learning How, 26 The Kind of Music That Is Too Good for Household Use, 23 The Periodical Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart, 13 If any part of it is unintelligible to the reader, he should be glad that he has escaped what seems to be an epidemic. In other words, this volume contains a shameless amount of slang. The vocabulary employed is one that has become familiar to the ear, although it is seldom seen on the printed page. It may be advisable to explain that these Fables are written in the colloquial American language. I have no desire to rub the wrong way anyone who proves his true friendship by purchasing a copy of this Work. If the reader will bear in mind that only the people who live around the corner are discussed in this volume, there will be no chance for painful misunderstandings. It is made up of plain observations concerning people who live just around the corner. This little book is not supposed to contain any new information.
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