SIXPENNY
:: PIECES ::

BY A. NEIL LYONS

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMIX

WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Arthur's. With a Cover-design
by W. Graham Robertson.
Crown 8vo. Second Edition.

TO
K. L. S.

CONTENTS

  1. [Introductory]
  2. [Concerning James]
  3. [First Impressions]
  4. [Sixpences]
  5. [The Hypocrites]
  6. [Conatus]
  7. [On The Properties of Water]
  8. [The Way of the East]
  9. [The 'Pothecary]
  10. [The Mother's Trade Union]
  11. [The Diagnosis]
  12. [The Tuskers]
  13. [Art Lovers]
  14. [Three Babies]
  15. [Ingrates]
  16. [Baffin's Find]
  17. [Mr. West's Wife]
  18. [Three Dialogues]
  19. [Curing the Curer]
  20. [Milk!]
  21. [Two Patients]
  22. [Lost!]
  23. [The Survivor]
  24. [More of Prudence]
  25. [A Talk with James]
  26. [The April Barge]
  27. [The Case of Mrs. Roper]
  28. [The Black Hat]
  29. [On Earning Sixpence]
  30. [Dialogue with a Bride]
  31. [An Interlude]
  32. [Low Finance]
  33. [The Mothers' Meeting]
  34. [The Woes of Wilfered]
  35. [Still More of Prudence]
  36. [A Birthday Party]
  37. [The Moral Sense]
  38. [Love and Hate]
  39. [On a Dead Policeman]
  40. [Mrs. Gluckstein]
  41. [Of Human Kindness]
  42. [The Last]

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