The Plutonian Fire Nemesis and the Candy Man Squaring the Circle Roses, Ruses and Romance The City of Dreadful Night The Easter of the Soul The Fool-Killer Transients in Arcadia The Rathskeller and the Rose The Clarion Call Extradited from Bohemia A Philistine in Bohemia From Each According to His Ability The Memento I THE VOICE OF THE CITY Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minister and the drone of a tired sawmill. I mean no disrespect. We must have lumber and sawdust. I remember one beautiful and instructive little lyric that emanated from the physiology class. The most striking line of it was this: "The shin-bone is the long-est bone in the hu-man bod-y." What an inestimable boon it
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