.--AFLOAT ON THE INDIAN SEA

XXVI.--FROM CEYLON TO EGYPT

XXVII.--IN THE SHADOW OF THE PYRAMIDS

XXVIII.--THE BLUE SKIES OF ITALY

XXIX.--OUR VISIT TO LA BELLE FRANCE

XXX.--THROUGH ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND

XXXI.--"HOME, SWEET HOME"

XXXII.--THE REVOLT OF THE BROTHERHOOD

XXXIII.--MY LAST YEARS ON THE BALL FIELD

XXXIV.--IF THIS BE TREASON, MAKE THE MOST OF IT

XXXV.--HOW MY WINTERS WERE SPENT

XXXVI.--WITH THE KNIGHTS OF THE CUE

XXXVII.--NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPING

XXXVIII.--L'ENVOI

CHAPTER I. MY BIRTHPLACE AND ANCESTRY.

The town of Marshalltown, the county seat of Marshall County, in the
great State of Iowa, is now a handsome and flourishing place of some
thirteen or fourteen thousand inhabitants. I have not had time recently
to take the census myself, and so I cannot be expected to certify
exactly as to how many men, women and children are contained within the
corporate limits.

At the time that I first appeared upon the scene, however, the town was
in a decidedly embryonic state, and outside of some half-dozen white
families that had squatted there it boasted of no inhabitants save
Indians of the Pottawattamie tribe, whose wigwams, or tepees, were
scattered here and there upon the prairie and along the banks of the
river that then, as now, was not navigable for anything much larger than
a flat-bottomed scow.

The first log cabin that was erected in Marshalltown was built by my
father, Henry Anson, who is still living, a hale and hearty old man,
whose only trouble seems to be, according to his own story, that he is
getting too fleshy, and that he finds it more difficult to get about
than he used to.

He and his father, Warren Anson, his grandfather, Jonathan Anson, and
his great-grandfather, Silas Anson, were all born in Dutchess County,
New York, and were direct descendants of one of two brothers, who came
to this country from England some time in the seventeenth century. They
traced their lineage back to William Anson, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, an
eminent barrister in the reign of James I, who purchased the Mansion of
Shuzsborough, in the county of Stafford, and, even farther back, to Lord
Anson, a high Admiral of the English navy, who was one of the first of
that daring band of sailors who circumnavigated the globe and helped to
lay the foundation of England's present greatness.

I have said that we were direct descen