JOHN KENDRICK BANGS _Frontispiece_
PARLEY CONVERSING WITH THE INVISIBLE GHOST _Facing p._ 48
"I THOUGHT A MILE WAS THE PROPER DISTANCE" 88
"HE VANISHED IN SOMETHING OF A RAGE" 94
THE SPECTRE BRASS-BAND 98
"THE THING FELL OVER LIMP" 100
"'GOOD-MORNING, MR. DAWSON'" 108
"THREE VILLANOUS-LOOKING BODIES, AND A FOURTH, WHICH DAWSON
RECOGNIZED AS HIS OWN" 126
"HE'S THE WORST BABY YOU EVER SAW" 148
"IT WAS A WEARY VIGIL, BUT HE WAS TRUE" 150
"'MY CASTLE'S BURNING, EH? HA-HA!'" 162
"RUPERT WAS ALWAYS MERRY" 166
"SIEGFRIED VON PEPPERPOTZ GREW ILL OF IT" 170
"THE THREE FIDDLED WITH ALL THEIR STRENGTH" 188
"'YOU ARE A VERY NICE OLD GENTLEMAN'" 200
"THE LITTLE FELLOW MUSED OFT AND LONG THEREON" 202
"IT NEARLY BLINDED HIM" 204
"Over the Plum-Pudding"