In Our Town

BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

The Court of Boyville, The Real Issue, Stratagems and Spoils

Illustrations by F. R. Gruger and W. Glackens

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI

Copyright 1906 by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published April, 1906

Copyright 1904 by The Century Co.
Copyright 1905-1906 by The Curtis Publishing Co.

He wore his collars so high that he had to order them from a drummer

Contents

I. Scribes and Pharisees
II. The Young Prince
III. The Society Editor
IV. "As a Breath into the Wind"
V. The Coming of the Leisure Class
VI. The Bolton Girl's "Position"
VII. "By the Rod of His Wrath"
VIII. "A Bundle of Myrrh"
IX. Our Loathed but Esteemed Contemporary
X. A Question of Climate
XI. The Casting out of Jimmy Myers
XII. "'A Babbled of Green Fields"
XIII. A Pilgrim in the Wilderness
XIV. The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop
XV. "And Yet a Fool"
XVI. A Kansas "Childe Roland"
XVII. The Tremolo Stop
XVIII. Sown in our Weakness
XIX. "Thirty"

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

He Wore his Collars so High that He Had to Order Them from a Drummer

Suppressing Nothing "On Account of the Respectability of the Parties Concerned"

As an Office Joke the Boys Used to Leave a Step-Ladder by Her Desk so that She Could Climb Up and See How Her Top-Knot Really Looked

And Brought with Him a Large Leisure and a Taste for Society

Sometimes He Thought It was a Report of a Fire and at Other Times It Seemed Like a Dress-Goods Catalogue

As the Dinner Hour Grew Near She Raged—So the Servants said—Whenever the Telephone Rang

"Jim Purdy, Taken the Day He Left for the Army"

He Advertised the Fact that He was a Good Hater by Showing Callers at His Office His Barrel

He Likes to Sit in the Old Swayback Swivel-Chair and Tell Us His Theory of the Increase in the Rainfall

And Camped in the Office for Two Days, Looking for Jimmy

Reverend Milligan Came in with a Church Notice

A Desert Scorpion, Outcast by Society and Proud of it

"He Made a Lot of Money and Blew it in"

Went About Town with His Cigar Pointing Toward his Hat-Brim