IN A STEAMER CHAIR

AND

_OTHER SHIPBOARD STORIES_

BY ROBERT BARR (LUKE SHARP)

[Illustration: He played one game.] A PRELIMINARY WORD.

As the incidents related herein took place during voyages between
England and America, I dedicate this book to the Vagabond Club of
London, and the Witenagemote Club of Detroit, in the hope that, if any
one charges me with telling a previously told tale, the fifty members of
each club will rise as one man and testify that they were called upon
to endure the story in question from my own lips prior to the alleged
original appearance of the same.

R.B.



CONTENTS

IN A STEAMER CHAIR

MRS TREMAIN

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE