THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA
By Booth Tarkington
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG MAN WHO CAME TO STAY
CHAPTER II. THE STRANGE LADY
CHAPTER III. LONESOMENESS
CHAPTER IV. THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER
CHAPTER V. AT THE PASTURE BARS: ELDER-BUSHES MAY HAVE STINGS
CHAPTER VI. JUNE
CHAPTER VII. MORNING: “SOME IN RAGS AND SOME IN TAGS AND SOME IN VELVET
CHAPTER VIII. GLAD AFTERNOON: THE GIRL BY THE BLUE TENT-POLE
CHAPTER IX. NIGHT: IT IS BAD LUCK TO SING BEFORE BREAKFAST
CHAPTER X. THE COURT-HOUSE BELL
CHAPTER XI. JOHN BROWN'S BODY
CHAPTER XII. JERRY THE TELLER
CHAPTER XIII. JAMES FISBEE
CHAPTER XIV. A RESCUE
CHAPTER XV. NETTLES
CHAPTER XVI. PRETTY MARQUISE
CHAPTER XVII. HELEN'S TOAST
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TREACHERY OF H. FISBEE
CHAPTER XIX. THE GREAT HARKLESS COMES HOME
LORDS
OF THE HOUSETOPS
THIRTEEN CAT TALES
CONTENTS
Preface, ix
I Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat, 1
II Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut, 11
III Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion, 29
IV Honore de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat 103
(translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten)
V Booth Tarkington: Gipsy, 124
VI G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad, 131
VII Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat, 144
VIII Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, 149
IX Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat, 163
X W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat, 198
XI William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend, 203
XII Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat, 220
XIII Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin, 226