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• FIRST INSTALLMENT. Where the Money came from—First Effect of Riches—Yearning for
  Ashcake and Buttermilk — Overwhelming Sense of Poverty—
  Misery and Wrath—A Morning Walk—Accident—Calvin Jones
  and Tom Kirkpatrick 13

• SECOND INSTALLMENT. The Cat out of the Bag—How People behaved—Park and Reservoir
  for Lynchburg—Alarming Increase of Destitution—W. E. Binford
  and the Widow Bexley—How to Help, whom to Help, and When
  —Rush of Editors, Photographers, etc.—“Sky Surprises” 19

• THIRD INSTALLMENT. Fits of Pride—How cured—A Sneaking Heart-Devil—The Pleasure
  of Giving—Some Schoolmarms—Ham. Chamberlayne—Deacon
  Handy—“The Native Virginian”—Numerous Widows—Colonel
  McDonald—Billy Christian—Trick on a Fat Doctor, etc. 25

• FOURTH INSTALLMENT. Laura Park—Sneers at Jones and Adams—The Great Reservoir—
  New Market-House—Grand Celebration—Arrival of Old Lynchburgers—Ballard
  Kidd and Harriet Rouse—Works at Curdsville,
  etc.—Rage of a baffled Rich Man—College for Old Virginia
  Fiddlers, etc. 33

• FIFTH INSTALLMENT. Blessings of the Fiddlers' College—Dancing vs. Pure Hugging—
  Course on Fife and Tobacco-Horn—Blind Billy—Buckingham
  Female Institute—“Chermany” and “Ant'ny Over”—Langhorne's
  Tavern, Ça Ira, New Store, Raine's Tavern, etc.—Spout
  Spring, Red House, Pamplin's, Tarwallet, etc.—College for Old
  Virginia Cooks—Hampden Sydney College—Mosque and Shot-Tower
  at Burkeville 40

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• SIXTH INSTALLMENT. Good Sidewalks in Richmond—Council of Cobblers and Ostlers—
  New Capitol proposed—Intense Rage of the Legislature—Speeches
  of Indignant Members—Appearance of Capitol in 1910—Strangers
  from Japan and North Carolina—Deplorable Consequence of a
  Bank, etc. 47

• SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Railroad Depots in Richmond—Improvements on Broad Street—
  Shields House—Virginia Historical Society Building—Colonel T.
  H. Wynne and Dr. W. P. Palmer—Automation of Com. Porter—
  Brice Church—Free-Pew Question settled—Paganism of Adams—
  Pulpit Propriety and Duck Guns—Rev. Dr. Broadus—Varlets,
  Cudgels, and Assassins—Congregational Singing—Church of
  Spectroscope 52

• EIGHTH INSTALLMENT. Mr. Pigskin on Immigration—Adams Hints at Empire—Ten Thousand
  Dollars each to Fifteen Hundred Girls—Bad Consequences
  of Good Intentions—Excitement in Virginia—Adams Hated—
  Regarded as an Active Intransitive Fool—Gov. Kemper—Expensive
  Joke on Wife—A Lesson to Husbands—Rev. Dr. Peterkin
  —Venom without Spondulics 60

• NINTH INSTALLMENT. Sad Results of an Explosion—Drs. Cullen and McGuire—Happy
  Resection of a Steeple—Burwell Music Hall—Great Fiddling
  Festival—A Treat for Pretty Girls—Happiest Time of Old
  Adams's Life—Gen. Richardson and Col. Sherwin McRae—
  Adams's Patent Lecture-Halls—Judge Waller Stapler—“Johnny
  Reb.” 69

• TENTH INSTALLMENT. Cremation of Piano Advertisers—Wisdom of Roman Catholics—
  The Addie Deane House—University of Virginia—Judge William
  Robertson, Dr. Maupin, etc.—Editorial Academy—Asylum for
  Worthless Young Men—Parke Park—Richmond Boulevard—
  Matthews & Matthews—Life's Appomattox—Semi-Phalansterian
  Squares, etc. 76

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• ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Black Crook Club Monument—Dr. Leigh Burton—Nat. Sturdivant
  Terrace—Hermann Garden—Louis Euker—Cornelia
  Cathedral—Worship Purely Musical—Leo Wheat—Major Burr
  Noland—Diseased Germans—Midnight New Year Services—Our
  Saviour—Mary Davidson—General Mahone—Elder, Fisher, and
  Sheppard—G. Watson James, etc. 87

• TWELFTH INSTALLMENT. Tour with Artist-Friends—Suggestive Summering—Badly Apple-Brandied—Judge
  Crump—John R. Thompson's Tomb—Yankees
  —“The Last of Pea Time”—Squirted out of Town—Peter Mayo
  and Alexander Cameron—Valentine's Colossal Statue—Dr. W.
  Hand Browne—Adams's “Folly,” Eleven Hundred Feet High—
  Gala Day all around the Globe—Excitement in Lynchburg—Jack
  Slaughter and Robin Terry—Trash Green—Death of Wife—Badly
  Kicked—Home near Pamlin's Depot. 97

• THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT. A Lonely Old Age—Dark and Bitter Thoughts—Arrival of the
  Commodore—Throwing Mexican Dollars—A Negro Killed—A
  Stormy Night—Trouble of Life's Ending—Misery of this World
  —Hallucinations—In the Fodder-stack—A Voice. 109

• FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. Aunt Polly Waddy—Cavalry Comin'—Ned Gregory, Barron Hope,
  V. Dabney and others—Slugs and Gulgers—Col. T. F. Owens
  —An Old Virginia Breakfast—The Commodore Breaks Loose—
  A Terrible Time—Cremation—Loose Again—Earthquakes, Cholera,
  etc,—Grand Dinner—Royal Ashcake—Toasts, Speeches, and
  Perfect Bliss—Asleep at His Own Table. 116

• FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT. In Gordonsville—Grand Triangular Bob Sully Hotel—Fried Chicken
  and Hard-boiled Eggs in Effigy—Vast Gongs—Stofers, Frys,
  Scotts, Chapmans, Kincheloes, etc.—The Sphinx—Adams a
  Nuisance—Sent to Poor-House—Death—Burial and Obituary—
  The End. 125

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