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Chimney-Pot Papers
by Charles S. Brooks.
Illustrated with wood-cuts
by Fritz Endell.
1920
New Haven: Yale University Press.
London: Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press
Copyright, 1919, by
Yale University Press.
First published, 1919.
Second printing, 1920.
Publisher's Note:
The Yale University Press makes grateful
acknowledgment to the Editors of the
Unpopular Review and The Century Magazine
for permission to include in the
present volume, essays of which they were
the original publishers.
To Minerva, my Wife.
Contents.
| I. | The Chimney-Pots | 11 | |
| II. | The Quest of the Lost Digamma | 19 | |
| III. | On a Rainy Morning | 35 | |
| IV. | "1917" | 43 | |
| V. | On Going Afoot | 47 | |
| VI. | On Livelihoods | 68 | |
| VII. | The Tread of the Friendly Giants | 79 | |
| VIII. | On Spending a Holiday | 89 | |
| IX. | Runaway Studies | 109 | |
| X. | On Turning into Forty | 117 | |
| XI. | On the Difference between Wit and Humor | 128 | |
| XII. | On Going to a Party | 136 | |
| XIII. | On a Pair of Leather Suspenders | 146 | |
| XIV. | Boots for Runaways | 159 | |
| XV. | On Hanging a Stocking at Christmas | 169 |
The Chimney-Pots.
y windows look across the roofs of the crowded city and my thoughts often take their suggestion from the life that is manifest at my neighbors' windows and on these roofs.
Across the way, one story lower than our own, there dwells "with his subsidiary parents" a little lad who has been ill for