Includes bibliographical references.

Bexar scrip no. 2692 -- Three paragraphs -- A personal insult -- When the train comes in : outline sketches at the Grand Central Depot -- Why he hesitated -- Something for baby -- Too wise -- The return of the songster -- Book reviews -- Guessed everything else -- In mezzotint -- The barber talks -- The ghost that came to Old Angles -- Pursuing ideals -- The miracle of Lava Canyon -- Whistling Dick's Christmas stocking -- A retrieved reformation -- Confessions of a humorist -- A ramble in aphasia -- Blind man's holiday -- The ransom of Red Chief -- A municipal report -- A fog in Santone : a meteorological sketch -- Friends in San Rosario -- Round the circle -- Hearts and hands -- The lonesome road -- The pimienta pancakes -- Holding up a train -- The ransom of Mack -- Christmas by injunction -- The handbook of Hymen -- The caballero's way -- The moment of victory -- Buried treasure -- The last of the troubadours -- The hiding of Black Bill -- A technical error -- The friendly call -- Shoes -- Ships -- A ruler of men -- "Next to reading matter" -- The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Conscience in art -- The man higher up -- The social triangle -- A little local colour -- A newspaper story -- After twenty years -- Lost on dress parade -- The complete life of John Hopkins -- The rubber plant's story -- A dinner at ____* : the adventures of an author with his own hero -- A comedy in rubber -- The pride of the cities -- The foreign policy of Company 99 -- The furnished room -- The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein -- The rathskeller and the rose -- A sacrifice hit -- The coming-out of Maggie -- The cop and the anthem -- The green door -- The badge of Policeman O'Roon -- The making of a New Yorker -- Psyche and the pskyscraper -- Man about town -- Springtime a la carte -- Extradited from Bohemia -- Tommy's burglar -- The girl and the graft -- Sisters of the golden circle -- An adjustment of nature -- A midsummer knight's dream -- An unfinished story -- The city of dreadful night -- The skylight room -- The poet and the peasant -- The plutonian fire -- The last leaf -- Elsie in New York -- The purple dress -- The gift of the Magi -- The duel -- The rubaiyat of a Scotch highball -- The buyer from Cactus City -- The harbinger -- Brickdust row -- "Girl" -- The trimmed lamp -- Proof of the pudding -- The memento -- A night in New Arabia -- Strictly business -- The third ingredient -- The higher pragmatism -- No story -- Let me feel your pulse -- The snow man -- The dream.