The child of encouragement is given to staggering its parent;
and I make no doubt that as you turn the following pages, you
will more than once exclaim, with the old lady in the ballad--
"O, deary me! this is none of I!"
Nevertheless, it would be strange indeed if this story bore no
marks of you; for a hundred kindly instances have taught me to
come with sure reliance for your reproof and praise. Few, I
imagine, have the good fortune of a critic so friendly and
inexorable; and if the critic has been unsparing, he has been
used unsparingly.
Wargrave, Henley-on-Thames,
June 7, 1888
CONTENTS.
Chapter.
I. IN WHICH THE READER IS MADE ACQUAINTED WITH A STATE OF
INNOCENCE; AND THE MEANING OF THE WORD "CUMEELFO"
II. HOW AN ADMIRAL TOOK ONE GENTLEMAN FOR ANOTHER, AND WAS TOLD
THE DAY OF THE MONTH.
III. OF A BLUE-JERSEYED MAN THAT WOULD HOIST NO MORE BRICKS; AND A
NIGHTCAP THAT HAD NO BUSINESS TO BE WHERE IT WAS.
IV. OF CERTAIN LEPERS; AND TWO BROTHERS WHO, BEING MUCH ALIKE,
LOVED THEIR SISTER AND RECOMMENDED THE USE OF GLOBES.
V. HOW AN ABSENT-MINDED MAN, THAT HATED WOMEN, TOOK A HOUSE BY
THE WATERSIDE AND LIVED THEREIN WITH ONE SERVANT.
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