le who do travel will find
nothing objectionable in the book, but our plan is to issue a book worth
about $9, charging only fifty cents for it, and then see to it that no
time-tables or maps which will never return after they have been pulled
out once, shall creep in among its pages.

It is the design of the authors to issue this guide annually unless
prohibited by law, and to be the pioneers establishing a book which
shall be designed solely for the use of anybody who desires to subscribe
for it.

BILL NYE.

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

P. S.--The authors desire to express their thanks to Mr. Riley for the
poetry and to Mr. Nye for the prose which have been used in this
book.

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August--Riley 32

Anecdotes of Jay Gould--Nye 23

A Black Hills Episode--Riley 132

A Blasted Snore--Nye 190

A Brave Refrain--Riley 188

A Character--Riley 142

A Dose't of Blues--Riley 220

A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake--Riley 30

A Hint of Spring--Riley 168

A Letter of Acceptance--Nye 56

A Treat Ode--Riley 170

Craqueodoom--Riley 81

Curly Locks--Riley 118

Ezra House--Riley 161

From Delphi to Camden--Riley 75

Good-bye or Howdy-do--Riley 195

Healthy, but Out of the Race--Nye 101

Her Tired Hands--Nye 152

His Crazy Bone--Riley 89

His Christmas Sled--Riley 150

His First Womern--Riley 41

How to Hunt the Fox--Nye 46

In a Box--Riley 214

In