In Which Socrates Attacks the Helmet and the Battle-Ax

In Which Socrates Increases the Supply of Splendor

In Which Socrates Breaks the Drag and Tandem Monopoly in Pointview

In Which Sundry People Make Great Discoveries

In Which Harry Is Forced to Abandon Swamp Fiction and Like Follies and to Study the Geography and Natives of a Land Unknown to Our Heiristocracy

In Which the Minister Gets Into Love and Trouble

In Which Socrates Discovers a New Folly

In Which Harry Returns to Pointview and Goes to Work

Which Presents an Incident in Our Campaign Against New New England

Which Presents a Decisive Incident in Our Campaign Against Old New England

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FOREWORD

It may interest, if it does not comfort, the reader to know that this little story is built upon facts. The ride of Harry, the hundred-dollar pimple, the psychological hair, the downfall of Roger, all happened, while the Bishop’s Head is one of the possessions of a New England family.

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“CHARGE IT”

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IN WHICH HARRY SWIFTLY PASSES FROM ONE STAGE OF HIS CAREER TO ANOTHER

“Harry and I were waiting for his motor-car,” said the Honorable Socrates Potter. “He couldn’t stand and wait––that would be losing time––so we kept busy. Went into the stores and bought things––violets, candy, golf-balls, tennis-shoes, new gloves, and neckties. Harry didn’t need ’em, but he couldn’t waste any time and––

“‘There’s the car!’

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