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Biographical note | |
Introduction | |
Editor's preface | |
Jim Smiley and his jumping frog | p. 3 |
The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief | p. 10 |
Cannibalism in the cars | p. 14 |
Journalism in Tennessee | p. 22 |
The story of the good little boy who did not prosper | p. 29 |
How I edited an agricultural paper once | p. 34 |
Political economy | p. 40 |
A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it | p. 46 |
The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut | p. 51 |
Punch, brothers, punch! | p. 67 |
Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn | p. 72 |
The stolen white elephant | p. 77 |
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm | p. 95 |
The private history of a campaign that failed | p. 101 |
Extracts from Adam's diary | p. 120 |
The man that corrupted Hadleyburg | p. 130 |
The $30,000 bequest | p. 172 |
Eve's diary | p. 198 |
Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven | p. 213 |
Letter from the recording angel | p. 264 |
The great dark | p. 269 |
The Second Advent | p. 309 |
War times | p. 327 |
Private history of the "Jumping frog" story | p. 331 |
How to tell a story | p. 339 |
Notes | p. 345 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 363 |
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