Transcriber’s Note: Readers may wish to be warned that the Colonel’stales, and the accompanying illustrations, contain outdated racialstereotyping and language.
TOLD BY THE COLONEL.
BY
W. L. ALDEN,
Author of “A Lost Soul,” “Adventures of Jimmy Brown,”
“Trying to Find Europe,” etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
RICHARD JACK AND HAL HURST.
NEW YORK
J. SELWIN TAIT & SONS
Copyright, 1893, by
J. SELWIN TAIT & SONS
| PAGE | |
| An Ornithological Romance, | 1 |
| Jewseppy, | 12 |
| That Little Frenchman, | 26 |
| Thompson’s Tombstone, | 38 |
| A Union Meeting, | 52 |
| A Clerical Romance, | 63 |
| A Mystery, | 80 |
| My Brother Elijah, | 93 |
| The St. Bernard Myth, | 108 |
| A Matrimonial Romance, | 124 |
| Hoskins’ Pets, | 139 |
| The Cat’s Revenge, | 153 |
| Silver-Plated, | 168 |
Four Americans were sitting in the smoking-roomof a Paris hotel. One of them was a grizzled,middle-aged man, who sat silent and apartfrom the others and consumed his heavy blackcigar with a somewhat gloomy air. The otherthree were briskly talking. They had beenthree days in Paris, and had visited the MoulinRouge, the tomb of Napoleon, and the sewe