CHAPTER ONE: PAGE. _Extra! Extra! All About the Great Reduction_ 15 CHAPTER TWO: _Those Romping Elfin Twenties_ 25 CHAPTER THREE: _Regarding Liver-Eating Watkins and Others_ 31 CHAPTER FOUR: _I Become the Panting Champion_ 41 CHAPTER FIVE: _On Acquiring Some Snappy Pores_ 55 CHAPTER SIX: _More Anon_ 65 CHAPTER SEVEN: _Office Visits, $10_ 75 CHAPTER EIGHT: _The Friendly Sons of the Boiled Spinach_ 95 CHAPTER NINE: _The Fallen Egg_ 111 CHAPTER TEN: _Wherein Our Hero Falters_ 121 CHAPTER ELEVEN: _Three Cheers for Lithesome Grace Regained_ 145 ILLUSTRATIONS I weighed myself and in the box score credited myself with a profound shock _Frontispiece_ "64 Broad" 19 To observe Mr.Bryan breakfasting is a sight worth seeing 45 "You are now registering the preliminary warnings--" 87.