Bad News--Horace Greeley dead--A Review of my Tower--Victory in Jail--Miss Aster a deception--Beecher slandered--Tilton do. do.--Doubts of Josiah--My Kitchen--I wear a bow on principle--Our supper--Josiah grows sentimental--I don’t discourage him 421-434 PICTURES IN THE BOOK. PAGE. 1 THE PLEASANT SUPPER (FULL PAGE) (_Frontispiece_) 2 I AND JOSIAH 19 3 REFRESHMENTS (TAIL PIECE) 20 4 TIRZAH ANN 23 5 BETSEY BOBBET 27 6 READIN’ POETRY 33 7 LOOKING FOR A VICTIM (TAIL PIECE) 37 8 PREPARIN’ FOR A PICTURE 39 9 THE PICTURE 45 10 THE SURPRISE PARTY (FULL PAGE) 53 11 DELICIOUS (TAIL PIECE) 57 12 THE QUILTIN’ PARTY (FULL PAGE) 77 13 SCANDALIZED (TAIL PIECE) 84 14 AN ACCIDENT 101 15 JOSIAH BEIN’ CHEERFUL 105 16 KEEPIN’ THE SICK QUIET 109 17 A FULL QUIRE 123 18 THE EAR RING PEDLER (FULL PAGE) 141 19 DISGUST (TAIL PIECE) 144 20 THE SERENADERS (FULL PAGE) 150 21 MEWSIN’ (TAIL PIECE) 156 22 THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION (FULL PAGE) 162 23 WHAT HAPPENED AT THE DINNER (FULL PAGE) 170 24 COUNTIN’ THE COST (FULL PAGE) 175 25 SIMON SLIMPSEY 182 26 SIMON OVERWHELMED 187 27 PROF. GUSHER 195 28 LIVIN’ ON GOSPEL 204 29 THE ENEMY ATTACKED 210 30 THE ELDER ON THE ALERT 213 31 BETSEY SEEKS RELIEF 219 32 A STRONG ATTACHMENT (TAIL PIECE) 221 33 FEMALE DELICACY 224