With Twelve Illustrations by
A. S. Boyd

LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27 PATERNOSTER ROW
1898

To
Mrs. Williamson
OF GLENOGIL
WHO HAS INHERITED
THE GIFT OF WITTY SPEECH
AND HAS LAID IT OUT AT USURY
TO THE JOY OF HER FRIENDS
AND THE
GLADDENING OF LIFE