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CONTENTS

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Avalon
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Cain 21

One Judge 22

An Obituarian 23

A Commuted Sentence 24

A Lifted Finger 27

Two Delegates 29

Matter for Gratitude 31

Three Kinds of a Rogue 33

A Man 37

Ye Foe to Cathaye 40

Samuel Shortridge 40

At a "National Encampment" 40

Theosophistry 42

Azrael 44

Competition 45

A Vision of Doom 46

Genesis 49

Religious Progress 50

The Fall of Miss Larkin 51

A Rendezvous 54

Yorick 54

Stanford's Welcome 56

Posterity's Award 58

An Art Critic 60

The Spirit of a Sponge 60

Ornithanthropos 61

To E. S. Salomon 62

Dennis Kearney 65

Finis Æternitatis 65

The Veteran 68

An "Exhibit" 68

The Transmigrations of a Soul 70

Indictment on Evidence 73

To an Aspirant 75

At the White House 76

Tidings of Good 77

An Actor 79

Famine's Realm 80

The Mackaiad 82

A Song in Praise 85

A Poet's Father 86

A Coward 87

To My Liars 88

"Phil" Crimmins 91

On the Scales 91

Codex Honoris 93

To W. H. L. B. 94

Emancipation 94