CONTENTS
CY WHITTAKER'S PLACE
CHAPTER I -- THE PERFECT BOARDING HOUSE
CHAPTER II -- THE WANDERER'S RETURN
CHAPTER III -- “FIXIN' OVER”
CHAPTER IV -- BAILEY BANGS'S EXPERIMENT
CHAPTER V -- A FRONT-DOOR CALLER
CHAPTER VI -- ICICLES AND DUST
CHAPTER VII -- CAPTAIN CY PROVES DELINQUENT
CHAPTER VIII -- THE “COW LADY”
CHAPTER IX -- POLITICS AND BIRTHDAYS
CHAPTER X -- A LETTER AND A VISITOR
CHAPTER XI -- A BARGAIN OFF
CHAPTER XII -- “TOWN-MEETIN'”
CHAPTER XIII -- THE REPULSE
CHAPTER XIV -- A CLEW
CHAPTER XV -- DEBBY BEASLEY TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XVI -- A REMARKABLE DRIVE AND WHAT FOLLOWED
CHAPTER XVII -- THE CAPTAIN REMEMBERS HIS AGE
CHAPTER XVIII -- CONGRESSMAN EVERDEAN
CHAPTER XIX -- THE TOPPLING OF A MONUMENT
CHAPTER XX -- DIVIDED HONORS
CHAPTER XXI -- CAPTAIN CY'S “PICTURE”
It is queer, but Captain Cy himself doesn't remember whether the day was Tuesday or Wednesday. Asaph Tidditt's records ought to settle it, for there was a meeting of the board of selectmen that day, and Asaph has been town clerk in Bayport since the summer before the Baptist meeting house burned. But on the record the date, in Asaph's handwriting, stands “Tuesday, May 10, 189-” and, as it happens, May 10 of that year fell on Wednesday, not Tuesday at all.
Keturah Bangs, who keeps “the perfect boarding house,” says it was Tuesday, because she remembers they had fried cod cheeks and cabbage that day—as they have every Tuesday—and neither Mr. Tidditt nor Bailey Bangs, Keturah's husband, was on hand when the dinner bell rang. Keturah says she is certain it was Tuesday, because she remembers smelling the boiled cabbage as she stood at the side door, looking up the road to see if either Asaph or Bailey was coming. As for Bailey, he says he remembers being late to dinner and his wife's “startin' to heave a broadsides into him” becau