BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

WITH characteristic courtesy, my publishers urge me, in defiance of my leave-taking of three years since, to send them yet another volume. In a way, I am glad to comply. On retiring for the night, few of us plunge into instant oblivion. When the soft lamp beside the bed has been switched off and the great world has been hushed into stillness, the mind obstinately insists upon a final flutter. The events of the busy day march past in grand review, and one is haunted  by the things he should have said, but didn’t.

   Since issuing the book that I believed to be my last, I have been the victim of such insomnious experience. Reaching for my discarded pen, therefore I have dotted down one or two wayward fancies that, in my earlier scribblings, I omitted to mention.  

F.W. BOREHAM

KEW,
VICTORIA,
AUSTRALIA

PART I

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
1. WET PAINT 11
2. HOME-MADE BREAD 23
3. HUGH OGILVIE’S SOLILOQUY 33
4. THE TAMING OF CAESAR 45
5. LETTERS FROM THE DEAD 50
6. THE ANGELS OF PECKHAM RYE 60
7. THE KALEIDOSCOPE 69
8. MY STRAY SHEEP 77
9. THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE 87

PART II

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
10. PASTEL SHADES 99
11. BEGINNING TO SINK 107
12. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE 118
13. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD 126
14. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 134
15. THE SOW’S EAR 145
16. TAD 154
17. AN EPIC OF THE WEST 166
18. GLASS HOUSES 173

PART III

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE
19. THE MAJESTY OF GOD 183
20. A MELODIOUS QUAKER 190
21. THE CONQUEROR OF THE WORLD 197
22. THE BIRTH OF A NATION 204
23. LIGHT IN THE VALLEY 213
24. ON SEEING NAPLES 223
25. A HARVEST DRAMA 230
26. HOW TO KEP WARM IN WINTER 240
27. THE PUBLIC HOUSE 248
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