Comic Stories Book

	Introduction	1
	He Quarrelled with his Wife	11
	Notes from the Memoirs of a Man of Ideals	12
	A Dreadful Night	16
	From the Diary of an Assistant Book-keeper	22
	An Incident at Law	24
	The Daughter of Albion	26
	Foiled!	30
	A Woman Without Prejudices	32
	The Complaints Book	36
	The Swedish Match	37
	Rapture	57
	Vint	59
	On the Telephone	63
	Romance with Double-Bass	65
	The Death of a Civil Servant	71
	Overdoing It	74
	Surgery	78
	In the Dark	82
	Kashtanka	86
	Grisha	105
	Fat and Thin	108
	The Object d'Art	110
	A Horsy Name	114
	At the Bath-house	117
	The Chameleon	121
	Revenge	124
	The Orator	128
	The Exclamation Mark	131
	Notes from the Journal of a Quick-tempered Man	136
	A Man of Ideas	145
	The Siren	148
	The Burbot	153
	The Civil Service Exam	158
	Boys	162
	A Drama	168
	The Malefactor	173
	No Comment	177
	Sergeant Prishibeyev	181
	Encased	185
	The Darling	197
	Notes	209