Believe You Me!

Believe You Me! is by Nina Wilcox Putnam, who is also credited as author of Adam's Garden and The Impossible Boy. The contents list, among others, chapters titled, among others, Ladies Enlist, Pro Bonehead Publico and Holy Smokes! The narrator says that the narrator was not going to make a statement about this here affair, and would not even yet, only for the publicity man.

The narrator walks up to a man called Von Hoffman and promises to get him, even if Jim does not want to. At the hospital a nurse at a desk asks for the name of ailment and is told that it is an alligator bite. The narrator calls the narrator's own act the best known parlor dancing act in the world and Broadway, and says a recent rest began with falling for the movies. A man described as the manager of the luxurious car-corrall says there was too many auto salesmen in the world already, and that they had ought to be diverted into selling some of the new temperance drinks.