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INDEX FOR WORKS OF HOLMAN DAY
By Holman Day
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Compiled by David Widger
## THE LANDLOPER
## BLOW THE MAN DOWN
## WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKE
## SQUIRE PHIN
## PINE TREE BALLADS
## WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS
## THE OWL TAXI
## THE RAINY DAY WAR
## JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS
## KING SPRUCE
## UP IN MAINE
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPED
TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES
THE LANDLOPER
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THE ROMANCE OF A MAN ON FOOT
By Holman Day
1915
CONTENTS
THE LANDLOPER
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
XXIX
XXX
XXXI
XXXII
XXXIII
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKE
A NOVEL
By Holman Day
CONTENTS
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR
By Holman Day
1906
CONTENTS
THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR
CHAPTER ONE—THE TRYING-OUT OF ONE RODNEY PARKER, ASSISTANT ENGINEER
CHAPTER TWO—THE WHIM THAT PROJECTED THE FAMOUS “POQUETTE CARRY RAILROAD”
CHAPTER THREE—ENGINEER PARKER GETS FINAL ORDERS FOR “THE LAND OF THE GIDEONITES.”
CHAPTER FOUR—IN WHICH THE DOUGHTY “SWAMP SWOGON” ASTONISHES SUNKHAZE SETTLEMENT
CHAPTER FIVE—HOW COLONEL GIDEON WAS BACKED DOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE
CHAPTER SIX—IN WHICH “THE CAT-HERMIT OF MOXIE” CASTS HIS SHADOW LONG BEFORE HIM
CHAPTER SEVEN—HOW “THE FRESH-WATER CORSAIRS” CAME TO SUNKHAZE
CHAPTER EIGHT—THE LOCOMOTIVE THAT WENT SWIMMING AND THE ENGINEER WHO WAS STOLEN
CHAPTER NINE—UP THE WINDING WAY TO THE “OGRE OF THE BIG WOODS.”
CHAPTER TEN—THE WANGAN DUEL
CHAPTER ELEVEN—THE BEAR THAT WALKED LIKE A MAN
CHAPTER TWELVE—THE STRANGE “CAT-HERMIT OF MOXIE”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN—THE BEAR OF THE BIG WOODS “BAITED” AFTER HIS OWN FASHION
CHAPTER FOURTEEN—HOW RODNEY PARKER PAID AN HONEST DEBT
CHAPTER FIFTEEN—THE DAY WHEN POQUETTE BURST WIDE OPEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN—THE PACT THAT OPENED RODNEY PARKER'S PROFESSIONAL FUTURE
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
A ROMANCE OF THE COAST
By Holman Day
CONTENTS
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
I ~ CAPTAIN BOYD MAYO GETS OUT OF SOUNDINGS
II ~ THEN CAPTAIN MAYO SEES SHOALS
III ~ THE TAVERN OF THE SEAS
IV ~ OVER THE “POLLY'S” RAIL
V ~ ON THE BRIDGE OF YACHT “OLENIA”
VI ~ AND WE SAILED
VII ~ INTO THE MESS FROM EASTWARD
VIII ~ LIKE BUGS UNDER A THIMBLE
IX ~ A MAN'S JOB
X ~ HOSPITALITY, PER JULIUS MARSTON
XI ~ A VOICE FROM HUE AND CRY
XII ~ NO PLACE POR THE SOLES OP THEIR FEET
XIII ~ A CAPTAIN OP HUMAN FLOTSAM
XIV ~ BEARINGS FOR A NEW COURSE
XV ~ THE RULES OF THE ROAD
XVI ~ MILLIONS AND A MITE
XVII ~ “EXACTLY!” SAID MR. FOGG
XVIII ~ HOW AN ANNUAL MEETING WAS HELD—ONCE!
XIX ~ THE PRIZE PACKAGE FROM MR. FOGG
XX ~ TESTING OUT A MAN
XXI ~ BITTER PROOF BY MORNING LIGHT
XXII ~ SPECIAL BUSINESS OF A PASSENGER
XXIII ~ THE MONSTER THAT SLIPPED ITS LEASH
XXIV ~ DOWN A GALLOPING SEA
XXV ~ A GIRL AND HER DEBT OF HONOR
XXVI ~ THE FANGS OF OLD RAZEE
XXVII ~ THE TEMPEST TURNS ITS CARD
XXVIII ~ GIRL'S HELP AND MAN'S WORK
XXIX ~ THE TOILERS OF OLD RAZEE
XXX ~ THE MATTER OP A MONOGRAM IN WAX
XXXI ~ THE BIG FELLOW HIMSELF
XXXII ~ A GIRL'S DEAR “BECAUSE!”
PINE TREE BALLADS
Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur’ Up in Maine
By Holman F. Day
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PINE TREE BALLADS
OUR HOME FOLKS
FEEDIN’ THE STOCK
JOHN W. JONES
DEED OF THE OLD HOME PLACE
OUR HOME FOLKS
THANKSGIVIN’ JIM
“OLD POSH”
THE SUN-BROWNED DADS OF MAINE
“HEAVENLY CROWN” RICH
OLD “FIGGER-FOUR”
PHEBE AND ICHABOD
WHEN OUR HERO COMES TO MAINE
UNCLE TASCUS AND THE DEED
SONGS OF THE SEA AND SHORE
TALE OF A SHAG-EYED SHARK
THE GREAT JEEHOOKIBUS WHALE
“AS BESEEMETH MEN”
THE NIGHT OF THE WHITE REVIEW
THE BALLAD OF ORASMUS NUTE
THE DORYMAN’S SONG
WE FELLERS DIGGIN’ CLAMS
DAN’L AND DUNK
THE AWFUL WAH-HOOH-WOW
SKIPPER JASON ELLISON
BALLADS OF DRIVE AND CAMP
THE RAPO-GENUS CHRISTMAS BALL
BALLADS OF DRIVE AND CAMP
WHEN THE ALLEGASH DRIVE GOES THROUGH
THE KNIGHT OF THE SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
’BOARD FOR THE ALLEGASH”
THE WANGAN CAMP
PLUG TOBACCO AT SOURDNAHUNK
O’CONNOR FROM THE DRIVE
JUST HUMAN NATURE
BALLAD OF OZY B. ORR
THE BALLAD OF “OLD SCRATCH”
WHEN ’LISH PLAYED OX
OLD “TEN PER CENT”
DIDN’T BUST HIS FORK
MEAN SAM GREEN
DICKERER JIM
BALLAD OF BENJAMIN BRANN
THE HEIRS
A. B. APPLETON, “PIRUT”
NEXT TO THE HEART
WITH LOVE—FROM MOTHER
THE QUAKER WEDDING
THE MADAWASKA WOOING
THE SONG OF THE MAN WHO DRIVES
THE OLD PEWTER PITCHER
OUR GOOD PREVARICATORS
OUR LIARS HERE IN MAINE
THE BALLAD OF DOC PLUFF
THE BALLAD OF HUNNEMAN TWO
ORADUDOLPH MOODY, REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT
TRIBUTE TO MR. ATKINS’S BASS VOICE
JIM’S TRANSLATION
ELIPHALET JONES—INVENTOR
THE PANTS JEMIMY MADE
BALLADS OF “CAPERS AND ACTIONS”
BALLAD OF ELKANAH B. ATKINSON
BALLAD OF OBADI FRYE
AT THE OLD FOLKS’ WHANG
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
DRIVIN’ THE STAGE
“DOC”
ANOTHER “TEA REBELLION”
“LIKE AN OLD COW’S TAIL”
PASSING IT ALONG
A SETTIN’ HEN
BALLAD OF DEACON PEASLEE
THE WORST TEACHER
THE TUCKVILLE GRAND BALL
THE ONE-RING SHOW
THE SWITCH FOR HIRAM BROWN
THE JUMPER
ISHMAEL’S BREED
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS
Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver
By Holman Day
CONTENTS
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS
I—BEING THE STRUGGLE OF AN AMATEUR AUTHOR TO GET A FAIR START
II—ENDING WITH A MEETING ON PURGATORY HILL
III—ON ACCOUNT OF A GIRL
IV—THE TRAINING OF THE QUEEN OF “SHEBY”
V—SHOOING AWAY A SCAPEGOAT
VI—HAVING TO DO WITH JODREY VOSE’s MAKING OP A DIVER
VII—THE PSYCHOLOGY OF A PLUG-HAT|
VIII—“TAKING IT OUT” ON A SUIT OF CLOTHES
IX—A GRISLY GAME OF BOWLS
X—THE ART OF PUTTING ON A FRONT
XI—THE FAILURE OF AN UNCLE-TAMER
XII—STARTING SOMETHING IN LEVANT
XIII—THE MAN WHO TALKED IN THE DARK
XIV—THE KICK-BACKS IN THIS SAMARITAN BUSINESS
XV—A TIP FROM MR. DAWLIN
XVI—GRABBING A HUSBAND AND FATHER
XVII—MONEY HAS LEGS
XVIII—THE ECCENTRICITIES OF ROYAL CITY
XIX—THE JOB Of AN ALTRUIST
XX—ACROSS CALLAS
XXI—THE SKIRMISH-LINE
XXII—MONEY ON THE GALLOP
XXIII—THE CLEAN-UP
XXIV—HOW SWEET IS THE HOME-COMING, EH?
XXV—GRATITUDE!
XXVI—CAPTAIN HOLSTROM ET AL.
XXVII—MR. BEASON HORNS IN
XXVIII—SORTING THE CHECKER-BOARD CREW
XXIX—THE TELLTALE RIBS
XXX—THE LOCKS OF THE SAND
XXXI—A TASTE OF BLOOD
XXXII—PER MISTER MONKEY
XXXIII—THE HEART OF THE MILLIONS
XXXIV—AMONG THIEVES
XXXV—SUBMARINE PICKPOCKETS
XXXVI—THE TERROR FROM THE NORTH
XXXVII—THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
THE OWL TAXI
BY HULBERT FOOTNER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I The Transfer
II Greg's First Fare
III Greg's Second Fare
IV In the House on Ninth Street
V The Taxi Yard
VI Greg's Rival
VII The Undertaker
VIII The Hold-up
IX The Flivver as a Post-Office
X Amy's Story
XI The Ride Home
XII What the Little Black Book Contained
XIII De Socotra Hires T7011 Again
XIV Through the Streets
XV Nina
XVI The "Psychopathic Sanitarium"
XVII The Young Man with the Little Black Moustache
XVIII Blossom's Report
XIX The Abduction
XX Exit Senor Saunders
XXI Up-stairs and Down
XXII Nemesis
XXIII Conclusion
SQUIRE PHIN
By Holman Day
CONTENTS
SQUIRE PHIN
CHAPTER I—“HARD-TIMES” WHARFF COCKS HIS NOSE TO SNIFF TROUBLE
CHAPTER II—“HIME” LOOK’S HOMECOMING WITH AN ELEPHANT
CHAPTER III—FROM THE MOUTH OF MARRINER AMAZEEN
CHAPTER IV—SQUIRE PHIN FINDS HYMEN’S TORCH BURNING HIS FINGERS
CHAPTER V—HIRAM LOOK MEETS KLEBER WILLARD BRIEFLY AND BRISKLY
CHAPTER VI—SQUIRE PHIN HAS A WORD OF BUSINESS WITH KING BRADISH
CHAPTER VII—THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN HEARTS
CHAPTER VIII—SQUIRE PHIN ACTS AS PEACEMAKER
CHAPTER IX—SUMNER BADGER MAKES A WILL AND, UNWITTINGLY, A DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER X—HIRAM LOOK PULLS IN SIMON PEAK FROM THE FLOTSAM OF LIFE
CHAPTER XI—THE COMBINATION THAT PROVED TOO MUCH
CHAPTER XII—THE LIVELY FIRST APPEARANCE OF “THE LOOK BROTHERS
CHAPTER XIII—THE “COME-UPPANCE” OF CAPTAIN NYMPHUS BODFISH
CHAPTER XIV—THE PACT OF “ORPHAN HILL”
CHAPTER XV—SOME OF THE POSSIBILITIES IN A “CORNET BRASS BAND”
CHAPTER XVI—THE DISAPPOINTING “TEST CASE” OF SUMNER BADGER,
CHAPTER XVII—WHAT DEVELOPED AT THE FORUM IN ASA BRICKETT’S STORE,
CHAPTER XVIII—YANKEE DISPOSITION IS NOT EXACTLY UNDERSTOOD,
CHAPTER XIX—SQUIRE PHIN SEES AND REPLEVINS WHAT BELONGS TO HIM
CHAPTER XX—PALERMO’S “MARCH MEETIN’”
CHAPTER XXI—WHY HIRAM LOOK WENT OUT OF THE CIRCUS BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXII—HOW SYLVENA WILLARD “TRIED IT ON THE DOG,”
CHAPTER XXIII—HIRAM LOOK’S TWO LIVELY BUSINESS ENGAGEMENTS
CHAPTER XXIV—THE CREDIT SHEET, AFTER THE LOOK
CHAPTER XXV—AQUARIUS WHARFF SEES SOMETHING BESIDES HARD TIMES
JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
CHAPTER ONE 1
CHAPTER TWO 11
CHAPTER THREE 18
CHAPTER FOUR 25
CHAPTER FIVE 30
CHAPTER SIX 43
CHAPTER SEVEN 53
CHAPTER EIGHT 63
CHAPTER NINE 75
CHAPTER TEN 86
CHAPTER ELEVEN 96
CHAPTER TWELVE 109
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 129
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 139
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 151
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 167
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 183
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 200
CHAPTER NINETEEN 212
CHAPTER TWENTY 219
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 232
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 240
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 248
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 261
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 272
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 285
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 296
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 302
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE 326
CHAPTER THIRTY 339
KING SPRUCE
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. Up in “Castle Cut ’Em” 1
II. The Heiress of “Oaklands” 17
III. The Making of a “Chaney Man” 27
IV. The Boss of the “Busters” 35
V. During the Pugwash Hang-up 55
VI. As Fought before the “It-’ll-git-ye Club” 62
VII. On Misery Gore 78
VIII. The Torch, and the Lighting of It 92
IX. By Order of Pulaski D. Britt 104
X. “Ladder” Lane’s Soirée 114
XI. In the Barony of “Stumpage John” 127
XII. The Code of Larrigan-land 142
XIII. The Red Throat of Pogey 153
XIV. The Message of “Prophet Eli” 164
XV. Between Two on Jerusalem 174
XVI. In the Path of the Big Wind 181
XVII. The Affair at Durfy’s Camp 198
XVIII. The Old Soubungo Trail 217
XIX. The Home-makers of Enchanted 230
XX. The Ha’nt of the Umcolcus 241
XXI. The Man Who Came from Nowhere 256
XXII. The Hostage of the Great White Silence 270
XXIII. In the Matter of John Barrett’s Daughter 278
XXIV. The Cheese Rind that Needed Sharp Teeth 293
XXV. Sharpening Teeth on Pulaski Britt’s Whetstone 303
XXVI. The Devil of the Hempen Strands 312
XXVII. The “Canned Thunder” of Castonia 324
XXVIII. “’Twas Done by Tommy Thunder” 341
XXIX. The Parade Past Rodburd Ide’s Platform 352
XXX. The Pact with King Spruce 361
ILLUSTRATIONS
“‘I KNOW YOUR HEART’” Frontispiece
“WADE STOOD ABOVE THE FALLEN FOE” Facing p. 70
“WRITHING AT HIS BONDS, HIS CONTORTED FACE
TOWARDS THE RED FLAMES GALLOPING UP THE
VALLEY” 172
“‘WHAT I SAY ON THIS RIVER GOES!’” 334
UP IN MAINE
CONTENTS
PREFACE
'ROUND HOME
AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG
OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT
CY NYE, PREVARICATOR
UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE
“PLUG”
THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW
HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS
HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH
GRAMPY’S LULLABY
HOSKINS’S COW
AN OLD STUN’ WALL
THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP
EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING
RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY
LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB
THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA
SON HAS GOT THE DEED
AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER
BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”
“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”
I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL
THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW
THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW
MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH
PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP
TAKIN’ COMFORT
EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS
LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE
GRAMPY SINGS A SONG
UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT
THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER
MORAL.
ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE
THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S
“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”
’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”
TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN
CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”
GOOD-BY, LOBSTER
CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS
ON THE OLD COAST TUB
TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER
DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN
THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE
THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH
FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP
THE SONG OF THE SAW
DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS
REAR O’ THE DRIVE
MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK
OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS
HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE
MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK
HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE
THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP
UP IN MAINE
A HAIL TO THE HUNTER
HOSSES
THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK
TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE
HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE
B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR
“JEST A LIFT”
BART OF BRIGHTON
GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL
THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL
THE PADDYWHACKS
THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY
THE MYSTIC BAND
AT THE OLD “GOOL”
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