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A Wet Season 333

The Confederate FLAGS.335

Hæc Fabula Docet 337

Again 338

Homo Podunkensis 340

A Social Call 341

My Day of Life 342


SOME ANTE - MORTEM EPITAPHS

A King of Craft 347

Stephen Dorsey 348

Mr. Justice Field 349

General B. F. Butler. 349

Reparation 350

Disincorporated 3 50

A Kit 351

Disjunctus 351

A Trencher-Knight 351

A Vice-President 352

A Wasted Life. 353


THE SCRAP HEAP

Poesy 357

Hospitality 357

Magnanimity 357

Understated 358

An Attorney-General..358

Financial News 358

Aspiration 359

Democracy 359

An Enemy to Law and Order 359

Foresight 360

A Fair Division 360

A Lacking Factor 360

The Politician 361

Elihu Root 361

An Error 361

Vanished at Cock-crow 362

Woman 362

A Partisan's Protest ..362

A Bequest to Music... 3 63

Oneiromancy 363

July Fourth 363

A Paradox 364

Reedified 364

A Bulletin 364

An Inscription 365

An Erroneous Assumption 365

A Constructor 365

God Complies 366

In Articulo Mortis 366

The Discoverers 366

Unexpounded 366

The Eastern Question 367

Two Types 367

To a Critic of Tennyson 367