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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• Olympus Pump; or, The Poetic Temperament 7

• 'Tis only my Husband 16

• Orson Dabbs, the Hittite 31

• Rocky Smalt; or, The Dangers of Imitation 39

• Undeveloped Genius. A Passage in the Life of P.
  Pilgarlick Pigwiggen, Esq. 50

• The best-natured Man in the World 60

• A Pair of Slippers; or, Falling Weather 70

• Indecision.—Duberly. Doubtington, the Man who
  couldn't make up his Mind 79

• Dilly Jones; or, The Progress of Improvement 93

• The Fleshy One 100

• Garden Theatricals 114

• Peter Brush, the great Used Up 130

• Music Mad; or, The Melomaniac 142

• Ripton Rumsey; A Tale of the Waters 155

• A whole-souled Fellow; or, The Decline and Fall
  of Tippleton Tipps 163

• Gamaliel Gambril; or, Domestic Uneasiness 183

• The Crooked Disciple; or, The Pride of Muscle 194

• Fydget Fyxington 207