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       Edward Everett Hale

      If, Yes and Perhaps

      Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066160760

       THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC.

       CHAPTER I.

       THE PORK-BARREL.

       CHAPTER II.

       WHERE IS THE BARREL?

       CHAPTER III.

       MY LIFE TO ITS CRISIS.

       CHAPTER IV.

       THE CRISIS.

       CHAPTER LAST.

       FAUSTA'S STORY.

       A PIECE OF POSSIBLE HISTORY.

       THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR

       THE OLD AND THE NEW, FACE TO FACE.

       A THUMB-NAIL SKETCH.

       THE DOT AND LINE ALPHABET.

       THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE.

       MY DOUBLE, AND HOW HE UNDID ME

       ONE OF THE INGHAM PAPERS.

       THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.

       FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.

       THE LAST OF THE FLORIDA.

       FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.

       THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.

       By J. THOMAS DARRAGH (late C. C. S.) .

       CHRISTMAS WAITS IN BOSTON.

       FROM THE INGHAM PAPERS.

       II.

       III.

        Dedication

        Preface to the Third Edition

        The Children of the Public Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter Last

        A Piece of Possible History

        The South American Editor

        The Old and the New, Face To Face

        The Dot and Line Alphabet

        The Last Voyage of the Resolute

        My Double, and how he undid me

        The Man without a Country

        The Last of the Florida

        The Skeleton in the Closet

        Christmas Waits in Boston

       Table of Contents

      [This story originated in the advertisement of the humbug which it describes. Some fifteen or twenty years since, when gift enterprises rose to one of their climaxes, a gift of a large sum of money, I think $10,000, was offered in New York to the most successful ticket-holder in some scheme, and one of $5,000 to the second. It was arranged that one of these parties should be a man and the other a woman; and the amiable suggestion was added, on the part of the undertaker of the enterprise, that if the gentleman and lady who drew these prizes liked each other sufficiently well when the distribution was made, they might regard the decision as a match made for them in Heaven, and take the money as the dowry of the bride. This thoroughly practical, and, at the same time, thoroughly absurd suggestion, arrested the attention of a distinguished story-teller, a dear friend of mine, who proposed to me that we should each of us write