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The Headswoman

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE GOLDEN AGE

DREAM DAYS

PAGAN PAPERS

THE BODLEY HEAD

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THE
HEADSWOMAN

By Kenneth Grahame

With Illustrations in Colour
and Woodcuts by
Marcia Lane Foster

LONDON
John Lane The Bodley Head Limited
New York John Lane Company

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First Published 1898
Illustrated Edition 1921

Printed In Great Britain by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.

“Now That we have been properly introducedallow me to apologise”	[Frontispiece]
Facing page
“You see I am Familiar with the Routine....Good-morning, Gentlemen!”		[8]
“Au revoir, Sir! If you should happen to be inthe Market-place any Morning”		[28]
Endeavouring to convey the Tardy Prisoner to theScaffold		[32]
“Nay, pardon me, Sweet One, ’twas but a Jestof Mine”		[36]
But at this point a Hubbub arose at the Foot ofthe Scaffold		[42]
“Now, mark my Words, you Miserable LittleBladder-o’-Lard, see if I don’t take this outof your Skin presently”		[44]
An Invitation arrived, backed by an Escort of Half-a-dozenvery Tall Archers		[46]

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