_I'm sitting alone by the fire
Dressed just as I came from the dance. (In color)
Frontispiece_
_Title. (In color)_
_Publishers' Note--Headpiece_ 5
_List of Designs--Headpiece_ 7
_HER LETTER--Half-title_ 11
_Is wasting an hour upon you_ 13
_That waits--on the stairs--for me yet_ 15
_With whom do I waltz, flirt, or talk?_ 17
_To look supernaturally grand_ 19
_And the hum of the smallest of talk_ 21
_With the man that shot Sandy McGee. (In color)_ 23
_The man that shot Sandy McGee_ 25
_Of that ride,--that to me was the rarest_ 27
_And swam the North Fork, and all that_ 29
_Mamma says my taste still is low_ 31
_That my heart's somewhere there in the ditches_ 33
_HIS ANSWER--Half-title_ 35
_I should write what he runs off his tongue. (In color)_ 37
_Being asked by an intimate party_ 39
_That with you, Miss, he "challenges Fate"_ 41
_Though the claim not, at date, paying wages_ 43
_And the rose that you gave him. (In color)_ 45
_Is frequent and painful and free_ 47
_Imparts but small ease to the style_ 49
_In this green laurel spray that he treasures_ 51
_But he lies there quite peaceful and pensive_ 53
_For I have a small favor to ask you_ 55
_Here's my pile; which it's six hundred dollars_ 57
_HER LAST LETTER--Half-title_ 59
_That you last wrote the 4th of December_ 61
_And you're not to be found in the ditches. (In color)_ 63
_From this spot, that you said was the fairest_ 65
_To London, when Pa wired, "Stop"_ 67
_And as to the stories you've heard_ 69
_Whose father sold clothes on the Bar_ 71
_With a look, Joe, that made her eyes drop. (In color)_ 73
_To find myself here, all alone_ 75
_Ah! gone is the old necromancy_ 77
_And you called the place Eden, you know. (In color)_ 79
_And the copse where you once tied my shoe-knot_ 81
_There's the rustle of silk on the sidewalk_ 83
_But there's still the "lap, lap" of the river. (In color)_ 85
_There's a lot that remains which one fancies_ 87
_He thinks he may find you_ 89
_And good-night to the canyon that answers_ 91
_I've just got your note. You deceiver!_ 93
_Now I know why they had me transferred here. (In color)_ 95
_How dared you get rich--you great stupid!_ 97
_The man who shot Sandy McGee
You made mayor!_ 99
_Tailpiece_ 100
_All the headpieces and other decorations are from
Mr. Keller's designs._
[Illustration]