Chapter I: Front Matter

INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF DON MARQUIS

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF DON MARQUIS

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS Click on the ## before each title to view a linked table of contents for each of the twelve volumes. Click on the title itself to open the original online file. ## THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.

## CARTER, AND OTHER PEOPLE

## THE REVOLT OF THE OYSTER

## THE OLD SOAK

## DANNY'S OWN STORY

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER B.

By Don Marquis

To All The Copyreaders On All The Newspapers Of America

CONTENTS CHAPTER I <A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD II <THE ROOM OF ILLUSION III <A SCHOONER, A SKIPPER, AND A SKULL IV <A BAD MAN TO CROSS V <BEAUTY IN DISTRESS VI <LADY AGATHA'S STORY VII <FIRST BLOOD FOR CLEGGETT VIII <A FLAME LEAPS OUT OF THE DARK IX <MYSTERIES MULTIPLY X <IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP XI <REPARTEE AND PISTOLS XII <THE SECOND OBLONG BOX XIII <THE SOUL OF LOGAN BLACK XIV <CLEGGETT STANDS BY HIS SHIP XV <NIGHT, TEMPEST, LOVE AND BATTLE XVI <ROMANCE REGNANT XVII <MISS PRINGLE CALLS ON MR. CLEGGETT XVIII <THE MAN IN THE BLUE PAJAMAS XIX <TWO GREAT MEN MEET XX <THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DETECTIVE XXI <THE THIRD OBLONG BOX ARRIVES XXII <DANCING ON THE DECK XXIII <CUTLASSES XXIV <THE DUEL XXV <THE SECRET OF THE VESSEL'S HOLD XXVI <A DOG DIES GAME XXVII <CLEGGETT ACCOMMODATES THE KING

CARTER, AND OTHER PEOPLE By Don Marquis 1921

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I.-Carter

II—Old Man Murtrie

III.—Never Say Die

IV.—McDermott

V.—Looney the Mutt

VI—Kale

VII—Bubbles

VIII.—The Chances of the Street

IX.—The Professor's Awakening

X.—The Penitent

XI.—The Locked Box

XII.—Behind the Curtain

XIII.—Words and Thoughts

THE REVOLT OF THE OYSTER By Don Marquis 1922

CONTENTS

THE REVOLT OF THE OYSTER

“IF WE COULD ONLY SEE”

HOW HANK SIGNED THE PLEDGE

ACCURSED HAT

ROONEY'S TOUCHDOWN

TOO AMERICAN

THE SADDEST MAN

DOGS AND BOYS (As told by the dog)

BILL PATTERSON

BLOOD WILL TELL (As told by the dog)

BEING A PUBLIC CHARACTER (As told by the dog)

WRITTEN IN BLOOD (As told by the dogs)

THE OLD SOAK, and HAIL AND FAREWELL By Don Marquis Line Drawings By Sterling Patterson 1921

CONTENTS

OLD SOAK

CHAPTER ONE—Introducing the Old Soak

CHAPTER TWO—Beginning the Old Soak's History of the Rum Demon

CHAPTER THREE—Liquor and Hennery Simms

CHAPTER FOUR—The Old Soak's History—The Barroom as an Educative

CHAPTER FIVE—Look Out For Crime Waves!

CHAPTER SIX—Continuing the Old Soak's History—The Barroom and the Arts

CHAPTER SEVEN—An Argument With the Old Woman

CHAPTER EIGHT—The Old Soak's History—More Evils of Prohibition

CHAPTER NINE—Preparing for Christmas

CHAPTER TEN—Continuing the History—the Old Soak Fears for the Growing

CHAPTER ELEVEN—Jabe Potter's Optimism

CHAPTER TWELVE—More of the History—As It Used to Be of a Morning

CHAPTER THIRTEEN—Peace and Contentment

CHAPTER FOURTEEN—Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—Unfermented

CHAPTER FIFTEEN—Political Talk

CHAPTER SIXTEEN—The History Continued—Prohibition and Winter Weather

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN—The Old Soak Finds a Way

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN—The History Continued—the Barroom's Good Influence

CHAPTER NINETEEN—A House Divided

CHAPTER TWENTY—Continuing the History of the Rum Demon—the Barroom and

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE—Sympathy Wanted

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO—The History of the Rum Demon Concluded—Prohibition

HAIL AND FAREWELL

I—A LAST DRINK

II—IN THE OLD DAYS

III—A DIPSEY CHANTEY

IV—A CERTAIN CLUB

V—A TEMPERANCE TRACT

VI—A VISION IN THE NIGHT

VII—THE LAST CASE OF GIN

VIII—CROWNED SINGERS

IX—DOWN IN A WINE VAULT

X—ANACREON

XI—THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE OLD DAYS

XII—IN AN OLD-TIME TAVERN BOOTH

XIII—THE OLD BRASS RAILING

XIV—ONCE YOUTH WAS MINE

XV—IN A TAVERN BOOTH

XVI—AN ENGAGEMENT

XVII—THE BATTLE OF THE KEYHOLES

XVIII—IN A TAVERN BOOTH

XIX—YEARNINGS AND MEMORIES

XX—DO YOU REMEMBER?

XXI—AND YOU MAY KECALL THIS

XXII—TRUE, BUT WHAT OF IT?

XXIII—A SUMMER DAY DREAM

XXIV—ON SWEARING OFF AGAIN

XXV—AFTER SEVERAL HIGHBALLS

XXVI—CHANT ROYAL OF THE DEJECTED DIPSOMANIAC

XXVII—PROVERBS XXIII, 29

XXVIII—AN OBJECT LESSON

XXIX—A KANSAS TRAGEDY

DANNY'S OWN STORY By Don Marquis 1912

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII

CHAPTER XXIII