Produced by Annie McGuire. This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print archive. [Illustration: "HE TOOK OUT HIS EYEGLASS TO STUDY IT."] BOSTON NEIGHBOURS IN TOWN AND OUT BY AGNES BLAKE POOR [Illustration] G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1898 COPYRIGHT, 1898 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE OUR TOLSTOI CLUB 1 A LITTLE FOOL 41 WHY I MARRIED ELEANOR 83 THE STORY OF A WALL-FLOWER 123 POOR MR. PONSONBY 187 MODERN VENGEANCE 239 THREE CUPS OF TEA 274 THE TRAMPS' WEDDING 300 * * * * * The author and the publishers desire to make acknowledgment to the publishers of the _Century Magazine_ and of the _New England Magazine_ for their courtesy in permitting the re-issue of certain stories which were originally published in these periodicals. [Illustration] OUR TOLSTOI CLUB I should be glad to tell a story if I only knew one, but I don't. Some people say that one experience is as interesting as another, and that any real life is worth hearing about; but I think it must make some little difference who the person is. But if I really must tell one, and since you all have told yours, and such nice ones, and anything is better than nothing when we are kept in all the morning by a pouring rain, with nothing to do, because we came only for a week, and did not expect it to rain, I will try and tell you about our Tolstoi Club, because that was rather like a story--at least it might have been like one if things had turned out a little differently.