Contents

Wrong Numbers[9]
The Genius of Mr. Bradshaw[17]
Five Inches [23]
Reading Without Tears[28]
On With the Dance[35]
The Autobiography[42]
The White Spat[47]
The Art of Drawing[55]
About Bathrooms [61]
A Criminal Type[67]
The Art of Poetry[73]
The Book of Jonah[94]
The Mystery of the Apple-pie Beds [105]
The Grasshopper[112]
Little Bits of London[118]
I The Supreme Court[118]
II “The Bear Garden”[126]
III Billingsgate[133]
IV The Bloater Show[140]
V Bond Street[145]
The Little Guiggols [151]