A Reminiscence
“The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored and unsung.”
—Walt Mason.
In These Pages
A Word Said Beforehand Explaining How a Certain “Chap” Lost His Temper and Found It Again Very Quickly. Derelict, By Young Ewing Allison A Reminiscence of Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” Based On the Quatrain of Captain Billy Bones. Picturing the Individual With Some Observations About A Man Whom I Have the Honor to Call Friend. Man and Newspaper Man A Peep Into Personal Records of the Past With Some Comments of a Current Nature. Just Browsing Around Excursions Into the “Higher Altitudes” With Something About the Books Up There. In the Operatic Field Being a Look Behind the Scenes With Some Glimpses of a Pursuing Jinx. Ballad of Dead Men The Same Being Mostly About Able Pirates And the Very Able Descendant of a Pirate. If There Is Controversy! Just a Few Bits From the Olden Days With Some Comment On a Certain Critic. Some Clippings—And a Letter Which Tells How One Who Did Not Know Set Himself Up As a “Chanty” Authority. Yo-Ho-Ho And A Bottle Of Rum Discussed As a Chanty Entertainingly By a Mariner and With a Deep-Sea Flavor.