Road to a Woman's Heart, The Sam Slick 1487 Sceptics, The Bliss Carman 1626 Staccato to O Le Lupe, A Bliss Carman 1499 Table Manners James Montgomery Flagg 1400 V-A-S-E, The James Jeffrey Roche 1603 Vive la Bagatelle Clinton Scollard 1497 When the Sirup's on the Flapjack Bert Leston Taylor 1634 COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X. A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT[1] BY EDMUND VANCE COOKE Now, everything that Russell did, he did his best to hasten, And one day he decided that he'd like to be a Mason; But nothing else would suit him, and nothing less would please, But he must take, and all at once, the thirty-three degrees. So he rode the--ah, that is, he crossed the--I can't tell; You either must not know at all, or else know very well. He dived in--well, well, never mind! It only need be said That somewhere in the last degree poor Russell dropped down dead. They arrested all the Masons, and they stayed in durance vile Till the jury found them guilty, when the Judge said, with a smile, "I'm forced to let the prisoners go, for I can find," said he, "No penalty for murder in the thirty-third degree!" FOOTNOTES: [1] Lippincott's Magazine. TABLE MANNERS[2] BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG When you turn down your glass, it's a sign That you're not going to take any wign. So turn down your plate When they serve things you hate, And you'll often be asked out to dign. FOOTNOTES: [2] By permission of Life Publishing Company. THE GIRL AND THE JULEP BY EMERSON HOUGH