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  SHE INVESTIGATES THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE DEAL WITH DOUBTFUL RESULTS

  SHE RAISES THE PRICE OF BOARD, BUT LOWERS IT AGAIN THROUGH STERN NECESSITY

  SHE MANUFACTURES HASH AND GIVES THE BOARDERS A FEW POINTERS ON THE ABERDEEN GUARDS

  SHE TACKLES RELIGION AND GIVES HER IDEAS OF THE SUNDAY ENFORCEMENT LAW

  SHE PREPARES A TREAT FOR THE BOARDERS WHICH LEADS TO A STRANGE COMEDY OF ERRORS

  SHE ANNOUNCES HER BIRTHDAY AND MAKES AN EVEN EXCHANGE WITH THE BOARDERS

  SHE CELEBRATES THE FOURTH AND RELATES HER VARIED EXPERIENCES

  SHE DISCOURSES UPON LOVE AND POLITICS

  SHE BUYS A COW AND THE BOARDERS HELP HER MILK IT

  SHE TALKS ABOUT RAILROADS AND VARIOUS MINOR MATTERS

  OUR LANDLADY (1)

  SHE EXPOSES A PRACTICAL JOKE AND TELLS ABOUT THE GOOSE QUILL KISS

  OUR LANDLADY (2)

  SHE GIVES A PICNIC TO THE BOARDERS AND WRITES A PROCLAMATION

  SHE ATTENDS THE CONVENTION AND IS DISGUSTED WITH POLITICS

  SHE RETURNS FROM HER VACATION AND VISITS THE FAIR

  SHE DISCUSSES TIMELY TOPICS AND CRITICISES SOME ABERDEEN PEOPLE

  SHE DISCOURSES ON THE “HARD TIMES CLUB,” AND TELLS A STORY

  SHE CONFIDES TO THE BOARDERS A DEAL TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE

  SHE RELATES SOME EXCITING ANCEDOTES AND ATTENDS THE INDEPENDENT BARBECUE

  SHE GETS HER DANDER UP AND GOES BACK ON POLITICS

  SHE HAS HER LAST SAY CONCERNING POLITICS, AND CRITICISES A SOCIETY EVENT

  SHE ORGANIZES A READING CLUB IN THE MOST APPROVED STYLE OF THE ART

  SHE GIVES THE BOARDERS A THANKSGIVING DINNER AND DISCUSSES HER BLESSINGS

  OUR LANDLADY (3)

  SHE ENJOYS A PLEASANT CHAT WITH THE BOARDERS

  SHE FILLS THE COLONEL’S STOCKING AND TALKS OF THE CHARITY BALL

  SHE VISITS THE GREAT DOWNDITCH FARM AND TELLS THE BOARDERS OF ITS WONDERS

  SHE TELLS THE BOARDERS HOW TO MAKE A FORTUNE

  CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM HER RAMBLING REMARKS

  SHE READS A CHAPTER IN “LOOKING BACKWARD” TO THE ASTONISHED AND INTERESTED BOARDERS

  SHE DISCUSSES NEW INVENTIONS WITH THE BOARDERS

  SING A SONG O’ SIXPENCE

  THE STORY OF LITTLE BOY BLUE

  THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE

  THE BLACK SHEEP

  OLD KING COLE

  MISTRESS MARY

  THE WOND’ROUS WISE MAN

  WHAT JACK HORNER DID

  THE MAN IN THE MOON

  THE JOLLY MILLER

  THE LITTLE MAN AND HIS LITTLE GUN

  HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK

  LITTLE BO-PEEP

  THE STORY OF TOMMY TUCKER

  PUSSY-CAT MEW

  HOW THE BEGGARS CAME TO TOWN

  TOM, THE PIPER’S SON

  HUMPTY DUMPTY

  THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE

  LITTLE MISS MUFFET

  THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM

  LITTLE BUN RABBIT

  THE COWARDLY LION AND THE HUNGRY TIGER

  LITTLE DOROTHY AND TOTO

  TIKTOK AND THE NOME KING

  OZMA AND THE LITTLE WIZARD

  JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE

  THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOODMAN

  THE BOX OF ROBBERS

  THE GLASS DOG

  THE QUEEN OF QUOK

  THE GIRL WHO OWNED A BEAR

  THE ENCHANTED TYPES

  THE LAUGHING HIPPOPOTAMUS

  THE MAGIC BON BONS

  THE CAPTURE OF FATHER TIME

  THE WONDERFUL PUMP

  THE DUMMY THAT LIVED

  THE KING OF THE POLAR BEARS

  THE MANDARIN AND THE BUTTERFLY

  MR WOODCOCK

  BANDIT JIM CROW

  PRARIE-DOG TOWN

  PRINCE MUD-TURTLE

  TWINKLE’S ENCHANTMENT

  SUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN

  THE STORY OF JAGLON

  THE STUFFED ALLIGATOR

  THE DISCONTENTED GOPHER

  THE FOREST ORACLE

  THE ENCHANTED BUFFALO

  THE PEA-GREEN POODLE

  THE JOLLY GIRAFFE OF JOMB

  THE TROUBLES OF POP WOMBAT

  THE TRANSFORMATION OF BAYAL THE PORCUPINE

  THE QUEER VISITORS FROM OZ

  THE MATING DAY

  THE RETURN OF DICK WEEMINS

  THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF DAN

  NELEBEL’S FAIRYLAND

  TO MACATAWA

  THE EQUINE PARADOX

  MY RUBY WEDDING RING

  THE RUNAWAY SHADOWS

  JACK BURGITT’S HONOR

  AUNT PHRONEY’S BOY

  WHO CALLED “PERRY?”

  HALDEMAN

  THE KING WHO CHANGED HIS MIND

  A KIDNAPPED SANTA CLAUS.

  JUGGERJOOK

  A COLD DAY ON THE RAILROAD

  A SHADOW CAST BEFORE

  AUNT HULDA’S GOOD TIME

  BESSIE’S FAIRY TALE

  THE MAN-FAIRY

  THE SUICIDE OF KIAROS

  THE TIGER’S EYE

  THEY PLAYED A NEW HAMLET

  YESTERDAY AT THE EXPOSITION

  HOW THE SCROGGS WON THE REWARD

  THE LOVERIDGE BURGLARY

  THE BAD MAN

  THE DIAMOND BACK

  THE MAN WITH THE RED SHIRT

  THE WITCHCRAFT OF MARY-MARIE

  THE RYL OF THE LILLIES

  THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF AN EASTER EGG

  THE TRAMP AND THE BABY

  THE YELLOW RYL

  THE LITTLEST GIANT

  LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

  A COLD DAY ON THE RAILROAD

  A KIDNAPPED SANTA CLAUS.

  A SHADOW CAST BEFORE

  AUNT HULDA’S GOOD TIME

  AUNT PHRONEY’S BOY

  BANDIT JIM CROW

  BESSIE’S FAIRY TALE

  CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM HER RAMBLING REMARKS

  HALDEMAN

  HER EXPERIENCES IN ATTEMPTING TO PHOTOGRAPH A BABY, AND THE SEVERE MENTAL STRAIN THAT ENSUED

  HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK

  HOW THE BEGGARS CAME TO TOWN

  HOW THE SCROGGS WON THE REWARD

  HUMPTY DUMPTY

  JACK BURGITT’S HONOR

  JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE

  JUGGERJOOK

  LITTLE BO-PEEP

  LITTLE BUN RABBIT

  LITTLE DOROTHY AND TOTO

  LITTLE MISS MUFFET

  MISTRESS MARY

  MR WOODCOCK

  MY RUBY WEDDING RING

  NELEBEL’S FAIRYLAND

  OLD KING COLE

  OUR LANDLADY (1)

  OUR LANDLADY (2)

  OUR LANDLADY (3)

  OZMA AND THE LITTLE WIZARD

  PRARIE-DOG TOWN

  PRINCE MUD-TURTLE

  PUSSY-CAT MEW

  SHE ANNOUNCES HER BIRTHDAY AND MAKES AN EVEN EXCHANGE WITH THE BOARDERS

  SHE ASPIRES TO RIVAL ELLA WHEELER WILCOX AND CONCOCTS ANOTHER SCHEME

  SHE ATTENDS THE CONVENTION AND IS DISGUSTED WITH POLITICS

  SHE BUYS A COW AND THE BOARDERS HELP HER MILK IT

  SHE CELEBRATES THE FOURTH AND RELATES HER VARIED EXPERIENCES

  SHE CONFIDES TO THE BOARDERS A DEAL TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE

  SHE DABBLES IN POLITICS AND ASPIRES TO A GREAT OFFICE

  SHE DISCOURSES ON MANY TOPICS AND TELLS HOW ALLEY DEALS OUT THE CORN

  SHE DISCOURSES ON THE “HARD TIMES CLUB,” AND TELLS A STORY

  SHE DISCOURSES UPON LOVE AND POLITICS

  SHE DISCUSSES NEW INVENTIONS WITH THE BOARDERS

  SHE DISCUSSES THE DISADVANTAGES OF PROHIBITION, AND INVENTS A NEW METHOD OF BAKING PIES

  SHE DISCUSSES TIMELY TOPICS AND CRITICISES SOME ABERDEEN PEOPLE

  SHE ENJOYS A PLEASANT CHAT WITH THE BOARDERS

  SHE EXPOSES A PRACTICAL JOKE AND TELLS ABOUT THE GOOSE QUILL KISS

  SHE FILLS THE COLONEL’S STOCKING AND TALKS OF THE CHARITY BALL

>   SHE GETS A LETTER FROM HER BROTHER IN HARRIMAN THAT NEARLY BREAKS UP THE ESTABLISHMENT

  SHE GETS HER DANDER UP AND GOES BACK ON POLITICS

  SHE GIVES A PICNIC TO THE BOARDERS AND WRITES A PROCLAMATION

  SHE GIVES AWAY THE INITIATION CEREMONIES OF THE UNITED WORKMEN AND HAS A FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE

  SHE GIVES THE BOARDERS A THANKSGIVING DINNER AND DISCUSSES HER BLESSINGS

  SHE GOES TO A BALL AND LETS A CAT OUT OF THE BAG

  SHE HAS HER LAST SAY CONCERNING POLITICS, AND CRITICISES A SOCIETY EVENT

  SHE INSISTS ON HER BOARDERS KEEPING LENT, WITH INDIFFERENT SUCCESS

  SHE INVESTIGATES THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE DEAL WITH DOUBTFUL RESULTS

  SHE LECTURES THE BOARDERS FOR UNSEEMLY CONDUCT AND FEEDS THEM A GREEN APPLE PIE

  SHE MAKES A TERRIBLE MISTAKE AND QUOTES A PROVERB

  SHE MANUFACTURES HASH AND GIVES THE BOARDERS A FEW POINTERS ON THE ABERDEEN GUARDS

  SHE ORGANIZES A READING CLUB IN THE MOST APPROVED STYLE OF THE ART

  SHE OUTDOES NELLIE BLY AND MAKES A TRIP AROUND ABERDEEN IN 72 MINUTES AND 6 SECONDS

  SHE PREPARES A TREAT FOR THE BOARDERS WHICH LEADS TO A STRANGE COMEDY OF ERRORS

  SHE RAISES THE PRICE OF BOARD, BUT LOWERS IT AGAIN THROUGH STERN NECESSITY

  SHE READS A CHAPTER IN “LOOKING BACKWARD” TO THE ASTONISHED AND INTERESTED BOARDERS

  SHE RELATES SOME EXCITING ANCEDOTES AND ATTENDS THE INDEPENDENT BARBECUE

  SHE REMARKS EMPHATICALLY ON SOME TIMELY AND TRUTHFUL TOPICS

  SHE REMONSTRATES ON THE GIDDINESS OF CHURCH SOCIALS

  SHE RETURNS FROM HER VACATION AND VISITS THE FAIR

  SHE TACKLES RELIGION AND GIVES HER IDEAS OF THE SUNDAY ENFORCEMENT LAW

  SHE TALKS ABOUT RAILROADS AND VARIOUS MINOR MATTERS

  SHE TELLS THE BOARDERS HOW TO MAKE A FORTUNE

  SHE TELLS WHY FARMERS SHOULD BE HAPPY AND DISPLAYS REMARKABLE FORETHOUGHT

  SHE VISITS THE GREAT DOWNDITCH FARM AND TELLS THE BOARDERS OF ITS WONDERS

  SHE WORRIES OVER SEED WHEAT, AND GETS LECTURED BY THE BOARDERS

  SING A SONG O’ SIXPENCE

  SUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN

  THE BAD MAN

  THE BLACK SHEEP

  THE BOX OF ROBBERS

  THE CAPTURE OF FATHER TIME

  THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE

  THE COWARDLY LION AND THE HUNGRY TIGER

  THE DIAMOND BACK

  THE DISCONTENTED GOPHER

  THE DUMMY THAT LIVED

  THE ENCHANTED BUFFALO

  THE ENCHANTED TYPES

  THE EQUINE PARADOX

  THE EXTRAVAGANCE OF DAN

  THE FOREST ORACLE

  THE GIRL WHO OWNED A BEAR

  THE GLASS DOG

  THE JOLLY GIRAFFE OF JOMB

  THE JOLLY MILLER

  THE KING OF THE POLAR BEARS

  THE KING WHO CHANGED HIS MIND

  THE LAUGHING HIPPOPOTAMUS

  THE LITTLE MAN AND HIS LITTLE GUN

  THE LITTLEST GIANT

  THE LOVERIDGE BURGLARY

  THE MAGIC BON BONS

  THE MAN IN THE MOON

  THE MAN WITH THE RED SHIRT

  THE MANDARIN AND THE BUTTERFLY

  THE MAN-FAIRY

  THE MATING DAY

  THE PEA-GREEN POODLE

  THE QUEEN OF QUOK

  THE QUEER VISITORS FROM OZ

  THE RETURN OF DICK WEEMINS

  THE RUNAWAY SHADOWS

  THE RYL OF THE LILLIES

  THE SCARECROW AND THE TIN WOODMAN

  THE STORY OF JAGLON

  THE STORY OF LITTLE BOY BLUE

  THE STORY OF TOMMY TUCKER

  THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF AN EASTER EGG

  THE STUFFED ALLIGATOR

  THE SUICIDE OF KIAROS

  THE TIGER’S EYE

  THE TRAMP AND THE BABY

  THE TRANSFORMATION OF BAYAL THE PORCUPINE

  THE TROUBLES OF POP WOMBAT

  THE WITCHCRAFT OF MARY-MARIE

  THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE

  THE WOND’ROUS WISE MAN

  THE WONDERFUL PUMP

  THE YELLOW RYL

  THEY PLAYED A NEW HAMLET

  THREE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM

  TIKTOK AND THE NOME KING

  TO MACATAWA

  TOM, THE PIPER’S SON

  TWINKLE’S ENCHANTMENT

  WHAT JACK HORNER DID

  WHO CALLED “PERRY?”

  YESTERDAY AT THE EXPOSITION

  The Poetry Collections

  A recent view of L. Frank Baum’s house at Coronado Island, San Diego, California

  BY THE CANDELABRA’S GLARE

  By the Candelabra’s Glare was L. Frank Baum’s first collection of verse, privately printed in 1898. Baum obtained a small printing press and printed the book’s 99 copies himself. He solicited the help of friends in its design, including eight illustrators, among them his future collaborator on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, W.W. Denslow. The volume’s 41 poems include a variety of sentimental and humorous verses, some previously published in newspapers. They range in subject from a humorous glimpse at feminists, to a farm wife in South Dakota, to a look at that era’s mania for bicycles. Its final section featured nine poems for children. Baum expanded on the idea the following year with Father Goose: His Book, which gained his first great commercial success.

  A first edition copy of By the Candelabra’s Glare

  CONTENTS

  Semi-Sentimental Verse by the Candelabra’s Glare

  T’ other Day

  Right at Last

  Time’s Vagaries

  Her Answer

  My Quandary

  My First Love

  The Green-Eyed Monster

  Jessie, My Queen!

  A Sonnet to My Lady’s Eye

  Tell Me

  At Last

  The Answer

  Cycling Verse: A Header

  A Ruse

  The Proud Miss MacNeal

  Farmer Benson on the Motocycle

  Then and Now

  Unassorted Verse

  Johnson

  La Reine Est Mort1--

  Vive la Reine!

  Ye Warming Pan

  The Egotist

  The Youngster

  Nance Adkins

  A Bird Dog

  When the Whistle Blows

  The Heretic

  A Rare Bit

  The Fisher Man

  When Mc Guffy

  Two Women

  Homo Sum

  That New Leaf

  Children’s Verse

  Dan’l

  The Tramp

  The Big Black Bear

  A Romance of a Broken Window

  My Little Maid

  Where Do They Go?

  The Greedy Gold-fish

  Who’s Afraid?

  Young America

  I am under obligations to Mr. A.H. Dwight, of the Dwight Brothers Paper Company, for the Paper on which these pages are printed, to Mr. Chauncey L. Williams for the end papers; to Mr. H.C. Maley, of the Illinois engraving company, for the zinc etchings; to Mr. Will A. Grant of Marsh and Grant, for the inks and sundry favors, and to Mr. George R. Smith, of The American Type Founding Company, for the types and press.

  FOREWORD

  A friend of mine, who has attained eminence as a critic, once found me glancing through a book of verse.

  “What are you looking for?” he demanded.

  “His excuse,” said I.

  “My dear boy,” returned the eminent critic, frowning severely, “there can be no excuse for a book of verse.”

  “Not if it chances to be poetry?” I asked.

  “Ah, said my friend, lightly, “that is another matter.”

  My best friends have never called me a poet, and I have been forced to admire their restraint. Nevertheless, this little book has an excuse. Unaided, I have set the types and turned the press and accomplished the binding. Such as it is, the book is “my very own.”

  An
other peculiar thing about this volume, which, I believe, renders it unique, is the fact that there has not been a penny of expense attending its production. For my good friends, when they found I was going to make a book, insisted upon furnishing all the pictures and material, and I have generously allowed them to do so.

  I have done my work in the evenings, when my business cares were over. It has been my recreation.

  I know a man whose battles with the world have never impaired his cheery disposition, his faith in humanity, his generous optimism. Although essentially a man of business, he joys in living, and those who meet him drop from their shoulders the mantle and care of perplexity and live while in his presence. With full appreciation of my privilege to call him friend, I dedicate this modest volume to Harrison H. Roundtree, of Chicago.

  Semi-Sentimental Verse by the Candelabra’s Glare

  OFT at night, while on my bed--

  Tossing here and turning there--

  Vagrant thoughts crowd in my head,

  Lingering, till in despair

  I arise, and to my desk

  Draw my well-worn easy chair

  And transfer the thoughts to words

  By the candelabra’s glare.

  Vain imaginings, no doubt,

  Meaning little, rhyming fair;

  And when they are written down

  And upon me coldly stare

  In their new-born black and white,

  I am tempted to declare

  Never more I’ll scribble verse

  By the candelabra’s glare.

  (Honestly, I never owned a candelabrum. And I believe they seldom glare unless highly polished. But my good friend, Mr. Costello, considered the title of this book a good one and straightway designed me a cover and made the plates. So I wrote the verses to give the cover countenance, and substituting prosaic gas-light for the candelabra, the matter is true enough.)

  T’ other Day

  SUSIE tripped across the green

  T’ other day;

  Sweeter maiden ne’er was seen,

  I must say.

  Golden locks a bonnet covered,

  On her cheeks the dimples hovered,

  Pearly teeth her smile discovered

  T’ other day.

  I was passing ‘long and fell

  In her way,

  And thought it might be well

  To delay

  While in words that stuck and stumbled

  All my bashful love I mumbled

  And my heart before her humbled,

  T’ other day.

  Susie’s cheeks flushed like the rose

  Straight away;

  Seemed as if those blushes chose

  To betray

  She was not indifferent;

  So I pleaded with intent

 

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