Index:In Other Words (1912).djvu

Title	In Other Words
Author	Franklin P. Adams
Year	1912
Publisher	Doubleday, Page & Company
Location	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	Proofread—All pages of the work proper are proofread, but not all are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded

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CONTENTS

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Craving Your Attention	vi
From the Rome Herald, Nov. 29, 71 A. D.	1
T. R. to W. H. T.	3
The Costofliving	5
It’s Really Disheartening	7
More Advice	9
A Bid to a House-Party	11
What Cut into Horace’s Work	13
Horace on Contentment	14
“Simplicity”	16
Getting Lydia’s Number	17
Spring Pome	19
A Sealed Proposal	21
Cheer Up, Postumus	22
The Good Old Socialistic Days	24
A Plea for the Present	25
Indorsing Xanthias’s Choice	26
Horace to Maecenas	27
“Good-by, My Lover, Good-by!”	29
Thoughts on Matters and Things	30
On an Upright Life	33
The Stinging of V. Catullus, Esq.	35
V. Catullus Said in Part	36
The Mathematics of Catullus	37
Catullus to His Knockers	38
Handing It to Cynthia	39
The Beefing of S. Propertius, Esq.	41
Indorsing a w. k. Emotion	43
Propertius Confesses	44
Roman Innuendo	45
To Julia, on June 21	46
Martial’s Bit of a Joke	47
A Ballade of Known and Unknown Matters	48
The Translated Way	50
The Height of Disagreeableness	53
As to Eyes	54
The Truth About the Spratts	55
Campaign Thoughts	57
Everybody’s Overdoing It	59
Baseball’s Sad Lexicon	62
To Myrtilla, on Opening Day	63
A Ballplayer’s Day	64
Ever See Her?	65
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens	66
John Jones, Clerk	68
One More	69
“And the Only Tune That He Could Play”	70
Thorns, Rifts, Clouds, Flaws, Blemishes, Etc.	71
“May Recover”	73
As John Howard Payne Said	74
For the Other 364 Days	75
Us Potes	76
Footlight Motifs	77
Revised	82
The Lost Wheeze	83
From an Awningless Sanctum	85
“On Christmas Day in the Morning”	86
From a Paragrapher’s Garden of Verses	87
Gilbert	88
Lines to Margaret, a Singing and Whistling Cook	89
A Pathetic Bit of a Ballad	90
Song of the Costofliving	91
The Old Man’s Discomforts	92
The Fool	94
To the Wind: After Gilbert’s “To the Terrestrial Globe”	95
To a Lady Complaining of Solitude	96
The Pandean Is No Pipe	97
“The Poems of Eugene Field”	98
Success	101
Managerial Tradition	103
“Christmas Comes but Once a Year”	104
After Samuel Rogers	114
The Diplomaniacs	116
Rondel	117
To the Waltonian Bards	118
Triolettuce Salad	119
The Easy Giggle	121
The Ballade of the Northern Girl	123
Lines on the Sabbath	125
“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers”	127
The Exile of Erin	129
Of Course You Would	131
True Comfort	133
To Gelett Burgess	134
Bacchanalian Songs	135
On a Certain Propensity of Bootblacks to Toy with the Shoelaces of the Shinee	136
Christmas Cards	137
Thanking One and All	141
Lines in Appreciation of a Lady’s Art	143
For Cummuters Only	144
Inept Quotation’s Artificial Aid	145
Some Speeches	148
No Trouble to Show Goods	150