Epigraph

“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?”
—Holy Writ.

Book One The Age of Fable

CHAPTER
I.	How the Christmas Saint was Proved
II.	An Old Man Faces Two Ways
III.	The Cult of the Candy Cane
IV.	The Big House of Portents
V.	The Life of Crime Is Appraised and Chosen
VI.	The Garden of Truth and the Perfect Father
VII.	The Superlative Cousin Bill J.
VIII.	Searching the Scriptures
IX.	On Surviving the Idols We Build
X.	The Passing of the Gratcher; and Another
XI.	The Strong Person’s Narrative
XII.	A New Theory of a Certain Wicked Man