The man that corrupted Hadleyburg -- My début as a literary person -- The 1,000,000 bank-note -- The Esquimau maiden's romance -- My first lie, and how I got out of it -- The belated Russian passport -- Two little tales -- About play-acting -- Diplomatic pay and clothes -- Is he living, or is he dead? -- My boyhood dreams -- The Austrian Edison keeping school again -- The death disk -- A double-barreled detective story -- A petition to the queen of England.