Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Irving Bacheller
Author: Irving Bacheller
Editor: David Widger
Release date: August 13, 2018 [eBook #57684]
Most recently updated: March 4, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
CONTENTS
| XV | Uncle Peabody's Way and Mine |
| XVI | I Use My Own Compass at a Fork in the Road |
| XVII | The Man with the Scythe |
| XVIII | I Start in a Long Way |
| XIX | On the Summit |
| Epilogue |
A Letter
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I--Which Describes the Journey of Samson Henry Traylor and His Wife
and Their Two Children and Their Dog Sambo through the Adirondack
Wilderness in 1831 on Their Way to the Land of Plenty, and
Especially Their Adventures in Bear Valley and No Santa Claus
Land. Furthermore, It Describes the Soaping of the Brimsteads and
the Capture of the Veiled Bear
CHAPTER II--Wherein Is Recorded the Vivid Impression Made upon the Travelers
by Their View of a Steam Engine and of the Famous Erie Canal.
Wherein, Also, Is a Brief Account of Sundry Curious Characters Met
on the Road and at a Celebration of the Fourth of July on the Big
Waterway
CHAPTER III--Wherein the Reader Is Introduced to Offut's Store and His Clerk
Abe, and the Scholar Jack Kelso and His Cabin and His Daughter
Bim, and Gets a First Look at Lincoln
CHAPTER IV--Which Presents Other Log Cabin Folk and the First Steps in the
Making of a New Home and Certain Incapacities of Abe
CHAPTER V--In Which the Character of Bim Kelso Flashes Out in a Strange
Adventure that Begins the Weaving of a Long Thread of Romance
CHAPTER VI--Which Describes the Lonely Life in a Prairie Cabin and a Stirring
Adventure on the Underground Railroad about the Time It Beganx
Operations
CHAPTER VII--In Which Mr. Eliphalet Biggs Gets Acquainted with Bim Kelso and
Her Father
CHAPTER VIII--Wherein Abe Makes Sundry Wise Remarks to the Boy Harry and
Announces His Purpose to Be a Candidate for the Legislature at
Kelso's Dinner Party
CHAPTER IX--In Which Bim Kelso Makes History, While Abe and Harry and Other
Good Citizens of New Salem Are Making an Effort to that End in the
Indian War
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER X--In Which Abe and Samson Wrestle and Some Raiders Come to Burn and
Stay to Repent
CHAPTER XI--In Which Abe, Elected to the Legislature, Gives What Comfort He
Can to Ann Rutledge in the Beginning of Her Sorrows. Also He Goes
to Springfield for New Clothes and Is Astonished by Its Pomp and
the Change in Eli
CHAPTER XII--Which Continues the Romance of Abe and Ann until the Former Leaves
New Salem to Begin His Work in the Legislature. Also It Describes
the Coloneling of Peter Lukins
CHAPTER XIII--Wherein the Route of the Underground Railroad Is Surveyed and
Samson and Harry Spend a Night in the Home of Henry Brimstead and
Hear Surprising Revelations, Confidentially Disclosed, and Are
Charmed by the Personality of His Daughter Annabel
CHAPTER XIV--In Which Abe Returns from Vandalia and Is Engaged to Ann, and
Three Interesting Slaves Arrive at the Home of Samson Traylor,
Who, with Harry Needles, Has an Adventure of Much Importance on
the Underground Road
CHAPTER XV--Wherein Harry and Abe Ride Up to Springdale and Visit Kelso's and
Learn of the Curious Lonesomeness of Eliphalet Biggs
CHAPTER XVI--Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Safely Passes Two Great Danger Points
and Turns into the Highway of His Manhood
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER XVII--Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Betrays Ignorance of Two Highly
Important Subjects, in Consequence of Which He Begins to Suffer
Serious Embarrassment
CHAPTER XVIII--In Which Mr. Lincoln, Samson and Harry Take a Long Ride Together
and the Latter Visit the Flourishing Little City of Chicago
CHAPTER XIX--Wherein Is One of the Many Private Panics Which Followed the
Bursting of the Bubble of Speculation
CHAPTER XX--Which Tells of the Settling of Abe Lincoln and the Traylors in the
Village of Springfield and of Samson's Second Visit to Chicago
CHAPTER XXI--Wherein a Remarkable School of Political Science Begins Its
Sessions in the Rear of Joshua Speed's Store. Also at Samson's
Fireside Honest Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the
Right of Revolution, and Later Brings a Suit against Lionel Davis
CHAPTER XXII--Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals His Method of Conducting a Lawsuit in
the Case of Henry Brimstead et al. vs. Lionel Davis
CHAPTER XXIII-- Which Presents the Pleasant Comedy of Individualism in the New
Capital, and the Courtship of Lincoln and Mary Todd
CHAPTER XXIV--Which Describes a Pleasant Holiday and a Pretty Stratagem
CHAPTER XXV--Being a Brief Memoir by the Honorable and Venerable Man Known in
These Pages as Josiah Traylor, Who Saw the Great Procession of
Events between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson and Especially
the Making and the End of Lincoln
“CHARGE IT”
OR
KEEPING UP WITH HARRY
A story of fashionable extravagance and of the
successful efforts to restrain it made
by The Honorable Socrates Potter
the genial friend of Lizzie
BY
IRVING BACHELLER
MCMXII
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | In Which Harry Swiftly Passes from One Stage of His Career to Another | 1 |
| II. | Which Begins the Story of the Bishop’s Head | 11 |
| III. | Which Is the Story of the Pimpled Queen and the Black Spot | 33 |
| IV. | In Which Socrates Encounters “New Thought” and Psychological Hair | 45 |
| V. | In Which Socrates Discusses the Over-Production of Talk | 55 |
| VI. | In Which Betsey Commits an Indiscretion | 69 |
| VII. | In Which Socrates Attacks the Worst Doers and Best Sellers | 75 |
| VIII. | In Which Socrates Attacks the Helmet and the Battle-Ax | 84 |
| IX. | In Which Socrates Increases the Supply of Splendor | 91 |
| X. | In Which Socrates Breaks the Drag and Tandem Monopoly in Pointview | 99 |
| XI. | In Which Sundry People Make Great Discoveries | 106 |
| XII. | In Which Harry Is Forced to Abandon Swamp Fiction and Like Follies and to Study the Geography and Natives of a Land Unknown to Our Heiristocracy | 118 |
| XIII. | In Which the Minister Gets Into Love and Trouble | 127 |
| XIV. | In Which Socrates Discovers a New Folly | 139 |
| XV. | In Which Harry Returns to Pointview and Goes to Work | 148 |
| XVI. | Which Presents an Incident in Our Campaign Against New New England | 171 |
| XVII. | Which Presents a Decisive Incident in Our Campaign Against Old New England | 176 |
| “SHE WISHED ME TO SUGGEST SOMETHING FOR HER TO DO” | Frontispiece |
| “WHAT DIDN’T THEY SAY? THEY FLEW AT ME LIKE WILDCATS.” | 60 |
| “‘IT’S THE VAN ALSTYNE CREST,’ I SAID. ‘IT’S A PROOF OF RESPECTABILITY.’” | 86 |
| “RADIANT IN SILK, LACE, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, AND RUBIES” | 94 |
| “HARRY’S PET COLLIE HAD COME UP TO THE BACK DOOR WITH A HUMAN SKULL IN HIS MOUTH” | 148 |
| “HE LOOKED LIKE A MAN WITH A WOODEN LEG” | 188 |
A Christmas Tale
By
IRVING BACHELLER
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Which Introduces the Shepherd of the Birds | 1 |
| II | The Founding of the Phyllistines | 18 |
| III | Which Tells of the Complaining Coin and the Man Who Lost His Self | 68 |
| IV | In Which Mr. Israel Sneed and Other Working Men Receive a Lesson in True Democracy | 91 |
| V | In Which J. Patterson Bing Buys a Necklace of Pearls | 103 |
| VI | In Which Hiram Blenkinsop Has a Number of Adventures | 117 |
| VII | In Which High Voltage Develops in the Conversation | 137 |
| VIII | In Which Judge Crooker Delivers a Few Opinions | 146 |
| IX | Which Tells of a Merry Christmas Day in the Little Cottage of the Widow Moran | 163 |
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE—IN WHICH THE ADVENTURES OF CRICKET PRESENTED, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIM
ADVENTURE I—BEING THAT OF CRICKET AND THE CHILD GHOST
ADVENTURE II—BEING THAT OF CRICKET AND THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
ADVENTURE III.—BEING THAT OF THE BUNGWOOD COW
ADVENTURE IV—BEING THAT OF CRICKET AND THE PURPLE GHOST
ADVENTURE V—BEING THAT OF CRICKET AND THE HAND-MADE GENTLEMAN
ADVENTURE VI.—IN WHICH CRICKET HAS SUNDRY EXPERIENCES
ADVENTURE VII.—WHICH IS THAT OF CRICKET AND THE LOVER AND THE POTATO-SACK
ADVENTURE VIII.—IN WHICH CRICKET MEETS THE COLONEL AND THE YOUNG MISS
ADVENTURE IX.—WHICH DESCRIBES THE COERCION OF SAM AND HIS WEDDING
ADVENTURE X.—WHICH IS THE ADVENTURE OF CRICKET ON THE HEMPEN BRIDGE
ADVENTURE XI.—IN WHICH CRICKET MEETS THE HAND-MADE GENTLEMAN AND THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE
BOOK TWO—IN WHICH CRICKET TAKES THE ROAD TO MANHOOD AND MEETS WITH SUNDRY MISHAPS
STAGE I.—IN WHICH CRICKET COMES TO A QUEER STOPPING-PLACE ON THE ROAD
STAGE II.—WHICH BRINGS CRICKET TO THE STATION OF REMORSE
STAGE III.—IN WHICH CRICKET PROCEEDS WITH HEAVIER BAGGAGE
STAGE IV.—IN WHICH CRICKET COMES TO A TURN IN THE ROAD
STAGE V.—IN WHICH CRICKET MOUNTS ONE OF GOD'S HORSES
STAGE VI.—MY LAST WEEK ON THE FLYING HORSE
STAGE VII.—IN WHICH MR. HERON ARRIVES AT THE SHOP OF THE HAND-MADE GENTLEMAN
STAGE VIII.—IN WHICH YOUNG MR. HERON COMES TO A TURN IN THE ROAD
STAGE IX.—IN WHICH WE MEET THE CAPTAIN OF THE NEW ARMY
STAGE X.—WHICH BRINGS MR. HERON TO A HIGH POINT IN THE ROAD
CHAPTER I.—THE SINGULAR BEGINNING OF A NEW CAREER
CHAPTER II.—IN WHICH PEARL'S OLD MARE BEGINS TO HURRY US ALONG
CHAPTER III.—THE GENTLEMAN DISCOVERS A NEW KIND OF POWER
CHAPTER IV.—IN WHICH WE MEET TWO GREAT MEN
CHAPTER V.—THE FIRST THROUGH CARS, AND THEIR BURDEN AND BAPTISM
CHAPTER VI.—THE FIRST BATTLE OF PEACE
CHAPTER VII,—MCCARTHY S FIRST BATTLE WITH SATAN
CHAPTER VIII.—IN WHICH WE TAKE SUPPER WITH THE FIRST CÆSAR OF THE CORPORATIONS
CHAPTER IX.—THE SECOND BATTLE OF PEACE
CHAPTER X.—THE CONTINUATION OF THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XI.—AN UNEXPECTED MEETING OF OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XII.—THE STORY OF AN UNSUSPECTED HERO
CONTENTS
I.—IN WHICH MR. POTTER PRESENTS THE SINGULAR DILEMMA OF WHITFIELD NORRIS, MULTIMILLIONAIRE
II.—MY INTERVIEW WITH THE PIRATE
III.—IN WHICH A MAN IS SEEN HOLDING DOWN THE BUSHEL THAT HIDES HIS LIGHT
IV.—A RATHER SWIFT ADVENTURE WITH THE PIRATE
V.—IN WHICH WE HAVE AN AMUSING VOYAGE
VI.—WE ARRIVE IN THE LAND OF LOVE AND SONG
VII.—IN WHICH I TEACH THE DIFFICULT ART OF BEING AN AMERICAN IN ITALY
VIII.—I AGREE TO FIGHT A DUEL AND NAME A WEAPON WITH WHICH EUROPEAN GENTLEMEN ARE UNFAMILIAR
IX.—A MODERN AMERICAN MARRYER ENTERS THE SCENE
X.—A DAY OF ADVENTURES WITH TUSCAN ARTISTS AND OTHERS
XI.—IN WHICH WE GET INTO THE FLASH AND GLITTER OF HIGH LIFE
XII.—IN WHICH NORRIS TAKES HIS LIGHT FROM UNDER THE BUSHEL
XIII.—IN WHICH I FIGHT A DUEL WITH ONE OF THE OLDEST WEAPONS IN THE WORLD
XIV.—MISS GWENDOLYN DEFINES HER POSITION
XV.—SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THE MAN MUGGS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—WHICH OPENS FIRE ON THE EXACTING INDUSTRY OF SUPERING
CHAPTER II.—WHICH TEACHES THAT ONE SHOULD NEVER HITCH HIS CONSCIENCE TO
CHAPTER III.—WHICH PRESENTS THE STORY OF THE SMOTHERED SON
CHAPTER IV.—WHICH HANDS OUT SOME SOME COMMON TO THE SUPERERS IN AMERICA
CHAPTER V. WHICH DROPS A FEW ROUNDS OF SHRAPNEL ON THE HUNS IN AMERICA
CHAPTER VI.—WHICH IS MOSTLY FOR THE BOYS OF OUR ARMY
CONTENTS
EBEN HOLDEN'. LAST DAY A-FISHING
CONTENTS
BALLAD OF THE SABRE CROSS AND 7