"There under some spreading oak or beech."
THE WAYFARERS LIBRARY
LEAVES IN THE WIND
Alpha of the Plough
(A. G. Gardiner)
LONDON & TORONTO: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
TO
MY CHILDREN
PREFATORY NOTE
This collection of essays, now republished in the "Wayfarers' Library," were written during the war, and first appeared in book form during the war. Like the preceding volume, Pebbles on the Shore, they were the literary diversions of a time of great public anxiety and heavy personal tasks. The writing of them was a happy distraction from unhappy things, and now that the great wind has passed it is a pleasure to find the leaves it blew down gathered between the companionable covers of the "Wayfarer." I leave them as they fell.
CONTENTS
[A Fellow Traveller]
[On a Famous Sermon]
[On Pockets and Things]
[On a Country Platform]
[On a Distant View of a Pig]
[In Defence of Ignorance]
[On a Shiny Night]
[On Giving up Tobacco]
[The Great God Gun]
[On a Legend of the War]
[On Talk and Talkers]
[On a Vision of Eden]
[On a Comic Genius]
[On a Vanished Garden]
[All About a Dog]
[On the American Soldier]
['Appy 'Einrich]
[On Fear]
[On Being Called Thompson]
[On Thinking for One's Self]
[On Sawing Wood]
[Variations on an Old Theme]
[On Clothes]
[The Duel that Failed]
[On Early Rising]
[On Being Known]
[On a Map of the Oberland]
[On a Talk in a Bus]
[On Virtues that don't Count]
[On Hate and the Soldier]
[On Taking the Call]
[A Dithyramb on a Dog]
[On Happy Faces in the Strand]
[On Word-Magic]
[Odin Grown Old]
[On a Smile in a Shaving Glass]
[On the Rule of the Road]
[On the Indifference of Nature]
[If Jeremy Came Back]
[On Sleep and Thought]
[On Mowing]