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CONTENTS
Page
Joaquin Miller. That Faithful Wife of Idaho 3
"Eli Perkins." Doctors' Wit and Humor 6
John Hay. The Fairs 13
Bret Harte. The Society upon the Stanislaus 23
To the Pliocene Skull 26
Her Letter 29
Plain Language from Truthful James; or, the Heathen Chinee 32
William L. Alden. An Unnecessary Invention 34
Robert Henry Newell. The American Traveler 38
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Portsmouth Originals and the Railroad 41
Chauncey M. Depew. The New Netherlanders 53
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