By R. C. Lehmann

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Author of "Anni Fugaces", "Crumbs Of Pity", And "Light And Shade"

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head

New York: John Lane Company MCMXVIII

Printed in Great Britain by Tumbull & Spears, Edinburgh




NOTE

All but two of the pieces here printed appeared originally in Punch. My thanks are due to Messrs Bradbury, Agnew & Co., the Proprietors of Punch, for permitting me to reprint them here. "For Wilma" was first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and appears here by the courtesy of the Editor.

R. C. L.


CONTENTS

THE VAGABOND

SINGING WATER

CRAGWELL END

THE BIRD IN THE ROOM

KILLED IN ACTION

EPITAPH

TO FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT ROBINSON, V.C.

PAGAN FANCIES

ROBIN, THE SEA-BOY

THE BIRTHDAY

THE DANCE

PANSIES

THE DRAGON OF WINTER HILL

FLUFFY, A CAT

THE LEAN-TO-SHED

THE CONTRACT

JOHN

THE SPARROW

GELERT

AVE, CAESAR!

SOO-TI

THE BATH

PETER, A PEKINESE PUPPY

THE DOGS' WELCOME

ODE TO JOHN BRADBURY

TEETH-SETTING

THE DEATH OF EUCLID

TO POSTUMOUS IN OCTOBER

A RAMSHACKLE ROOM

THE LAST STRAW

AT PUTNEY

"A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE"

THE LAST COCK-PHEASANT

IN MEMORIAM


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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