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Yours, truly, Jacob L. Bowman

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by JACOB L. BOWMAN, In the Clerk's office of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

TO MY FRIEND,
THOMAS ELLWOOD GARRETT,
WITHOUT FURTHER COMMENT,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY AND EARNESTLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.

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CONTENTS.

• WASHINGTON AND HIS BIRTH-DAY. 9
• WOMEN AND THEIR RIGHTS. 16
• HULDA WEAVER. 24
• A TILT AT A FASHIONABLE FOLLY. 28
• DISTRESSING BALLAD OF A CHARCOAL MAN. 35
• ENTREE INTO THE ARENA OF POLITICS. 37
• THE RAILROAD "RING." 47
• RUM-CHANT. 53
• A FAMILY MAN. 57
• PERKINS' SUKEY ANN AND OUR LIZ. 66
• DAWN OF THE MILLENIUM. 72
• A MODEL MEMBER OF THE SANITARY POLICE. 77
• REPORT OF A SCIENTIFIC SURVEY. 83
• THE LIFE WRECK. 91
• AN OVATION. 93
• THE DRAMATIC ELEPHANT. 101
• FLIGHT OF BACCHUS FROM THE CAPITOL. 107
• AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART. 112
• FUN A-SLEIGHING. 119
• SALVE LARDUM. 127
• THE SHOW BUSINESS. 132
• A SPECK OF WAR. 139
• ANNUARY. 145
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• SKIRMISH WITH A TIGER. 150
• A THANKSGIVING FROLIC. 156
• LUCIFER'S LAST. 163
• MINISTERING ANGELS. 169
• TRAINING FOR THE TOURNAMENT. 172
• UNDER THE WHEEL. 180
• A DOMESTIC SKETCH. 183
• AMONG THE MILLINERS. 187
• TO BETTY. 194
• AN EQUESTRIAN FAIR. 195
• SABBATH RECREATIONS. 201
• A MYTH. 210
• INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE. 211
• PHOTOGRAPH OF A NOTABLE EVENT. 218
• LILLIE, BEWARE. 225
• BANDMANN AND BROKEN DUTCH. 228
• A MOONLIGHT EXCURSION WITHOUT A MOON. 230
• I LOVE THE MERRY SPRING-TIME. 235
• 58,600. 237
• EGYPT. 281
• MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 243 TO 280

PREFACE.

In presenting this collection of fugitive sketches and poems to the public, I have no intention of attempting to disarm criticism by an affectation of humility. The feeling which has moved me to the publication of a book, is probably similar to that which has actuated hundreds of others, and does not demand a definition.

By way of explanation, it may be stated that the discrepancy in the character of those burlesque compositions dated at Chicago, and those which are not, is accounted for by the fact that the former were written over another nom de plume, and in a different guise from that of "Hans Patrick Le Connor."

The "Miscellaneous Poems" are juvenile productions, written many years ago, and now brought to trial for the first time.

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Expressing my gratitude to many friends for their encouragement in this enterprise, and at the same time taking the opportunity to express the conviction that the book is somewhat fortunate, inasmuch as by common formality I am debarred the privilege of criticising it, I beg leave to remain, etc.,