Contents

Author's Foreword

Penguin Persons

Spring Comes to Thumping Dick

The Passing of the Stage Sundial

On Singing Songs with One Finger

The Immorality of Shop-windows

A Forgotten American Poet

New Poetry and the Lingering Line

The Lies We Learn in Our Youth

The Bad Manners of Polite People

On Giving up Golf Forever

"Grape-Vine" Erudition

Business Before Grammar

Wood Ashes and Progress

The Vacant Room in Drama

On Giving an Author a Plot

The Twilight Veil

Spring in the Garden

The Bubble, Reputation

The Old House on the Bend

Concerning Hat-trees

The Shrinking of Kingman's Field

Mumblety-peg and Middle Age

Barber Shops of Yesterday

The Button Box

Peppermints

BY

WALTER PRICHARD EATON

Essay Index Reprint Series

BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS
FREEPORT, NEW YORK

First Published 1922
Reprinted 1969

STANDARD BOOK NUMBER:
8369-1288-8

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER:
72-93335

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To
My Little Sister
who was born just in time
to know the old, quiet ways of life
in their gentle decline—to
know and to love
them