The Piazza -- Bartleby, the scrivener -- Benito Cereno -- The lighting-rod man -- The encantadas, or enchanted isies -- The bell-tower -- Fragments from a writing desk -- Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" -- Hawthorne and his mosses -- The happy failure -- The fiddler -- Cock-a-doodle-dool -- Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs -- The two temples -- The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids -- Jimmy Rose -- The gees -- I and my chimney -- The apple-tree table -- John Marr -- Billy Budd, sailor