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CONTENTS: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table The Professor at the Breakfast-table The Poet at the Breakfast Table Over the Teacups Elsie Venner The Guardian Angel A Mortal Antipathy Pages from an Old Volume of Life Bread and the Newspaper My Hunt after “The Captain” The Inevitable Trial Cinders from Ashes The Pulpit and the Pew
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