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CONTENTS

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• UP THE HUDSON—Off for Saratoga
  1

  • Horse-Racers 2

  • Gamblers 3

  • Clergymen 5

  • The old Pilot 6

• SARATOGA—Preparing for the
  Great Race 7

  • Longfellow 8

  • Lo! the Poor Indian 10

  • Joke 10

• STEEPLE CHASE 11

  • Jockeys 12

  • Jake 12

  • Albert 13

• GRAND STAND 14

  • The Ladies on the Grand
    Stand—Betting 16

• ARTEMUS WARD 17

• TRAVERSE'S JOKE 19

• PHILOSOPHY 19

• CONGRESS SPRING, Saratoga 20

  • The Statistics of Saratoga 20

  • Early Settlement 22

  • Growth of Saratoga 22

  • The Old United States 23

  • The Race Track 24

  • Use of the Waters 24

  • Analysis of Springs in a Nut-Shell
    25

• RACES—FUN—PERSONAL 26

  • Horse Talk 26

• A PARTY OF TAMMANYITES 27

  • The Round Lake Camp Meeting
    28

  • Funny 28

  • Who is Here? (Personal) 28

• LOVE AND GEOGRAPHY 31

• GINX'S BABY 32

• THE BLOOD OF HARRY LEE 35

  • The Story—Calhoun and Webster's
    Big Hearts 35

• GEN. SHERMAN TALKS 38

  • Sherman's Story 39

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  • Presidential 40

  • Emperor Grant 41

• FUN BETWEEN THE HOUSES 43

  • Yankee Jews 45

  • Indignation 45

  • Dainty Dishes 45

  • Extreme of Vice 46

  • Gambling 46

• SPRINKLED—New Spring, Jessie
  Crane 47

  • New Indian Spring 48

  • Fizz 48

  • Walking Sticks 49

• SARATOGA TURN-OUTS 50

• MOON ON THE LAKE 53

  • Rich Sam Duncan 54

  • Poor Sam Duncan 54

  • Old “Frank Waddell” Bottle 54

  • Potatoes (The Secret) 56

• SARATOGA GOSSIP 57

  • Levity at the Clarendon 57

  • Joke 58

  • Groesbeck on the War Path 58

  • Self-made Men 58

  • “Poker” 59

  • The First Masquerade 61

  • Masquerade Generally 62

  • Brown's Boys 62

  • The Pirates 63

  • Ancient Henry 64

  • Uncle Hank in the Grocery 64

• CONGRESS SPRING 68

  • Dreadful Developments 69

  • No Word of Hope 70

  • Our Correspondent Expelled 71

  • Lan— Invited to Go 72

  • The Exile's Return 74

• ELI PERKINS' SERMON 75

  • The Contrast 76

  • Among Gentlemen 76

  • The Newest Sensation 76

  • These Cretonne Suits 77

  • Gentlemen's Toilets 77

  • Dressing at Saratoga 77

  • Benches in Congress Spring
    Park 78

  • Statistics 78

• SARATOGA AMUSEMENTS 80

  • One More Joke 81

  • Eli Perkins Preaches on
    Prices 82

  • Feeing Waiters 83

  • Hats 84

  • Eli is Lan— 84

• PICTURES 85

  • A beautiful Christian 85

  • Full Dress Ball at Congress
    Hall 87

  • Married Ladies with Beautiful
    Children 87

• LOVE IN A GRAVEYARD 89

  • The Old Sexton 89

• EPITAPHS 92

• THE EFFECT OF THE SNAKE
  STORY—A JOKE 96

• SARKASUM 98

• THAT HORRIBLE BUCK 100

• REV. ELI PERKINS 102

  • Types 103

• FLIRTING 105

  • When Fred's a Flirt 106

• MEYERS AND THE CEDAR
  BLUFF 108

• GRAND HOP AT THE CLARENDON
  111

  • Swells 112

• KISSES 114

• GRAND SOCIAL CONGRESS 116

  • At the Clarendon 117

  • Committee on Incomes 118

  • Committee on Pedigrees 118

  • Committee on Flirtation 118

  • Committee on Dress 119

  • Other Committees 119

  • The Intriguing Committee 120

  • These Terrible Developments 120

• A CHRISTIAN ACT 121

  • Subscriptions 122

• PORTRAITS—Geo. H. Bissell,
  B. F. Beekman, Chas. Wall,
  John R. Cecil, Hugh J.
  Hastings, Col. A. Boody, Jas.
  H. Breslin, Peter Gilsey, Col.
  Abeil Heywood 123

  • Fun 124

  • Awful Profanity 124

• COL. FISK OF THE 9th 125

• FASHIONABLE SOCIETY AT
  THE CIRCUS 127

  • Affecting Incident 128

  • “Society People” 130

  • Our Circus Mirror 131

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  • Personal 131

  • An Episode of War 132

  • More Personal 133

  • Toilets 133

  • Guests Present—Very Personal
    134

  • Eli Perkins of Connecticut 136

• JOKE—EVERYBODY SOLD 137

  • Fun at Dinner 139

• SARATOGA CROWDS 140

  • Old Dog Brave 141

• MR. PERKINS GOES TO THE
  CLARENDON 142

  • A Poor Man 143

• CLARENDON 145

  • Watching the Balcony 145

• JOSH BILLINGS INTERVIEWED
  147

• MR. PERKINS MOURNS BECAUSE
  HE DOES NOT
  DANCE THE ROUND
  DANCES 150

  • Terrible Development 150

  • Eli in Tears 152

• ECLIPSE OF THE GAS WORKS 153

  • To Sleep 156

• THE GREAT SCANDAL CASES
  —Barons and Judges Implicated
  158

  • The Joke a Success 159

• SARATOGA INDIAN STORY—
  Lena and Oronta Disappear
  in Congress Spring 163

• THE DEFEAT OF LONGFELLOW—The
  Breaking of Old
  John Harper's Heart 169

  • A Funeral and a Wedding 169

  • After the Race 271

• ELI CRAZY ON STATISTICS—
  Multiplication, Addition, and
  Substraction 172

  • More Statistics 173

  • The Other Hotel Statistics 176

• THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA 177

  • The Colored Troops 179

  • The Gun Boats 179

  • The Battle Rages 180

• THE PERKINS FAMILY 182

• SARATOGA IN 1901—Eli an Old
  Man 191

  • Europe 193

  • Dropped Down at Long
    Branch 193

  • Through the Air to Saratoga 195

  • How the Young Ladies were
    Dressed 196

  • Intemperance 198

• NEW YORK IN 1901—Fashion's
  Changes 201

• GOING TO PARTIES IN 1901 204

• CANT WORDS IN 1901 207

  • New American Dictionary 208

  • Ritualism in 1901—Candles
    Versus the Sun 212

  • Church of the Imitation Candles
    215

• SARATOGA AGAIN IN 1901 221

  • Congress Spring Dries Up 222

  • Growth of Saratoga 222

  • Longfellow and Uncle John
    Harper 223

  • The Boys 224

• VALE 226

• HOME AGAIN 227

• NEW YORK—At Ball & Black's 231

• ELI CONFESSES HIS SINS 234

• FIFTH AVENUE FLIRTING 236

  • I Like to be Loved 236

  • Julia's Idea 238

  • FLIRTING 241

• NEW YEAR'S CALLS 245

• ALBERT AND JULIA 249

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