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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       I

       THE VOICE OF THE CITY

       II

       THE COMPLETE LIFE OF JOHN HOPKINS

       III

       A LICKPENNY LOVER

       IV

       DOUGHERTY'S EYE-OPENER

       V

       "LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT"

       VI

       THE HARBINGER

       VII

       WHILE THE AUTO WAITS

       VIII

       A COMEDY IN RUBBER

       IX

       ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS

       X

       THE DEFEAT OF THE CITY

       XI

       THE SHOCKS OF DOOM

       XII

       THE PLUTONIAN FIRE

       XIII

       NEMESIS AND THE CANDY MAN

       XIV

       SQUARING THE CIRCLE

       XV

       ROSES, RUSES AND ROMANCE

       XVI

       THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

       XVII

       THE EASTER OF THE SOUL

       XVIII

       THE FOOL-KILLER

       XIX

       TRANSIENTS IN ARCADIA

       XX

       THE RATHSKELLER AND THE ROSE

       XXI

       THE CLARION CALL

       XXII

       EXTRADITED FROM BOHEMIA

       XXIII

       A PHILISTINE IN BOHEMIA

       XXIV

       FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITY

       XXV

       THE MEMENTO

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THE VOICE OF THE CITY

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      Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust.

      I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking