Illustrated By Gordon Grant

1915

CONTENTS

THE SCARLET PLAGUE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

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Illustrations

Slowly he Pulled the Bowstring Taut 020

Rabbit is Good, Very Good 026

This Attracted the Old Man's Nostrils 033

With a Sling Such As David Carried 036

I Was a Professor of English Literature 054

Sixty Years Since I Have Seen a Piece of Soap. 059

Granser, You Make Me Sick With Your Gabble 071

But This New Plague Was Quicker 078

The Telephone Bell Rang 088

Fled from the City by Millions 092

I Heard Sounds of Rioting and Of Pistol Shots 098

Look at Yourself in the Mirror 100

Now in the Time of Calamity They Turned on Us 108

He Told Me he Had Been Cruelly Beaten 112

We Thrust Her Forth from the Building 121

She Fell Like a Plummet to the Earth 132

With My Horse and Dogs And Pony, I Set out 144

Everybody Called Him Chauffeur 149

Vesta the One Woman 150

There She Was, Boiling Fish-chowder 153

And Her the Chauffeur Beat and Made his Slave 158

Found Evidences of a Recently Occupied Camp 169

I Have Stored Many Books in a Cave 179

THE SCARLET PLAGUE