Many furrows
THE WAYFARER'S LIBRARY
Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
LONDON & TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.
All rights reserved
FIRST PUBLISHED ... 1924
FIRST PUBLISHED IN THIS SERIES ... 1927
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
TO MY WIFE
When Benedick said that he would die a bachelor he did not know, as he observed later, that he would live to be married. In the same way, I have to confess that when in my preface to Windfalls I hinted that it would be the last of these little books, I did not think that there would be another.
Mr. Dent has convinced me of my mistake. This is the fourth collection I have made and, warned of the danger of forecasting the future, I will say no word in prejudice of a fifth. The essays, like those in the previous volumes, have appeared in The Star , many of them also in the Manchester Evening News and some in the Glasgow Citizen .
A. G. Gardiner
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MANY FURROWS
PREFACE
DREAM JOURNEYS
ON COMING HOME
A LOG FIRE
ON SAYING "PLEASE"
BILLITCH AT LORD'S
ON SHOP WINDOWS
A DAY WITH THE BEES
ON SHAKING HANDS
ON A FINGER-POST
THE OPEN WINDOW
ON AN UNPOSTED LETTER
A NOTE ON DRESS
FAREWELL TO HAMPSTEAD
ON PLAGIARISM
THE CASE OF DEAN INGE
A TALE OF FLEET STREET
ON THE TOP NOTE
TEA AND MR. BENNETT
ON BUYING AND SELLING
ON BIG WORDS
DO WE BUY BOOKS?
OTHER PEOPLE'S JOBS
WHY I DON'T KNOW
ON ANTI-CLIMAX
NAMING THE BABY
THE CULT OF THE KNIFE AND FORK
A SOLILOQUY IN A GARDEN
A NIGHT'S LODGING
THOSE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR
HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME
A SENTENCE OF DEATH
ON AN ELDERLY PERSON
TAMING THE BEAR
OURSELVES AND OTHERS
AN OFFER OF £10,000
IN A LUMBER-ROOM
OUR NEIGHBOUR THE MOON
ON SMILES
WHEN IN ROME...
THE JESTS OF CHANCE
IN DEFENCE OF "SKIPPING"
AN OLD ENGLISH TOWN
ON PEOPLE WITH ONE IDEA
TO AN UNKNOWN ARTIST
ON LIVING FOR EVER
ON INITIALS
PLANTING A SPINNEY
ON WEARING AN EYEGLASS
A MAN AND HIS WATCH
YOUTH AND OLD AGE
THE GOLDEN AGE
THE TOP OF THE LADDER
ON FACES—PAST AND PRESENT
IN PRAISE OF MAIDEN AUNTS
OCTOBER DAYS
