CHAPTER IV.

THE STORY OF THE PARACHUTE


CHAPTER V.

UMBRELLA STORIES


CHAPTER VI.

THE REGENERATION OF THE UMBRELLA





CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.


Can it be possibly believed, by the present eminently practical
generation, that a busy people like the English, whose diversified
occupations so continually expose them to the chances and changes of
a proverbially fickle sky, had ever been ignorant of the blessings
bestowed on them by that dearest and truest friend in need and in
deed, the UMBRELLA? Can you, gentle reader, for instance, realise to
yourself the idea of a man not possessing such a convenience for