With feelings which I cannot describe,
I remain,
Your obliged and grateful,
JAMES RUNCIMAN.
CONTENTS.
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INTRODUCTION 1
THE WANDERER 6
THE PINK TOM CAT 23
TEDDY 46
THE WANDERER AGAIN 64
THE ROBBERY 77
ONE OF OUR ENTERTAINMENTS 92
MERRY JERRY AND HIS FRIENDS 108
THE GENTLEMAN, THE DOCTOR, AND DICKY 123
POACHERS AND NIGHTBIRDS 140
JIM BILLINGS 155
OUR PARLOUR COMPANY 175
A QUEER CHRISTMAS 192
JACK BROWN 215
THE CHEQUERS.
INTRODUCTION.
It is risky to go home with some of the company from the Chequers, for
good-fellowship is by no means fostered in the atmosphere of a
public-house. The creatures who write about the cheerful glass, and the
jovial evening, and the drink that mellows the heart, know nothing of
the sad work that goes on in a boozing-place, while the persons who draw
wild pictures of impossible horrors are worse than the hired men who
write in publican's papers.
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