The conspirators 25

"'Weren't your ears long enough?'" 33

"'The corks popped to some purpose last night'" 37

"'If you could spare so little as one flame'" 43

The school-master as a cooler 47

"'Reading the Sunday newspapers'" 51

Bobbo 55

Wooing the Muse 67

"'He gave up jokes'" 71

"'A little garden of my own, where I could raise an
occasional can of tomatoes'" 75

"'A hind-quarter of lamb gambolling about its native heath'" 77

"'The gladsome click of the lawn-mower'" 80

"'You don't mean to say that you write for the papers?'" 85

"'We wooed the self-same maid'" 87