Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Copyright date from verso of t.p Photographic frontispiece and photographic plates facing p. 24, 46, 68, 80 and 96 Advertisements on p. [1]-[4] at back The why of it -- The law of recreation -- Aunts and other things -- How I discovered Jimmie -- Mr. Slate -- The Slate family, Except Mr. Slate -- The sensation of "having been there before" -- Joyce -- Concerning sympathy -- My next-door neighbor -- Hasheesh -- When the ice goes out -- Why Jones shrunk -- How Glenmore was cured of insomnia -- Mrs. Animule -- Tramps -- Similitudes -- When it snows -- My garden -- Jones Number Two -- The song of the saw -- Catching wood -- Of love -- The wood-pile and the wash-tub -- My study -- A night at the club -- Moods and antidotes -- The passing of Dutton