Sketches from life: Uncle Jake and the bell handle --
A foreign policy, in three glimpses --
Four men in a cave: likewise four queens, and a Sullivan County hermit --
Travels in New York: the broken-down van --
The octopush: a Sullivan County nocturne --
A ghoul's accountant: the story of a Sullivan County produce deal --
The black dog: a night of spectral terror --
Killing his bear: a winter tragedy with three actors --
A tent in agony: a Sullivan County sketch --
The cry of a huckleberry pudding: a dim study of camping experiences --
An explosion of seven babies: a Sullivan County episode --
The mesmeric mountain: a tale of Sullivan County --
The holler tree: a Sullivan County sketch --
Across the covered pit --
Why did the young clerk swear? Or, the unsatisfactory French --
The reluctant voyagers --
An experiment in misery --
An experiment in luxury --
Billie Atkins went to Omaha [An American tramp's excursion] --
Mr. Binks' day off: a study of a clerk's holiday --
Coney Island's failing days --
In a Park Row restaurant --
Stories told by an artist: a tale about how "Great Grief" got his holiday dinner --
When every one is panic stricken --
When a man falls a crowd gathers --
The duel that was not fought --
A Christmas dinner won in battle --
A lovely jag in a crowded car --
The judgment of the sage --
A tale of mere chance : being an account of the pursuit of the tiles, the statement of the clock, and the grip of a coat of orange spots, together with some criticism of a detective said to be carved from an old table leg --
Three miraculous soldiers --
A freight car incident --
In the tenderloin: a duel between an alarm clock and a suicidal purpose --
The voice of the mountain --
Yen-Nock Bill and his sweetheart --
How the donkey lifted the hills --
The victory of the moon --
Flanagan and his short filibustering adventure --
An old man goes wooing --
The bride comes to Yellow Sky --
The wise men: a detail of American life in Mexico --
The price of the harness --
A self-made man: an example of success that any one can follow --
God rest ye, merry gentlemen --
The lone charge of William B. Perkins --
The revenge of the Adolphus --
The sergeant's private madhouse --
The battle of Forty Fort --
The surrender of Forty Fort --
"Ol' Bennet" and the Indians --
The lover and the telltale --
The shrapnel of their friends --
"And if he wills, we must die" --
The trial, execution, and burial of Homer Phelps --
An illusion in red and white --
The city urchin and the chaste villagers --
A man by the name of Mud --
Stephen Crane : a chronology.
