946. The Old Sow.
947. The Bewitched Boots. All these four are in ‘The Boy with an Idea.’ [No. 138].
948. The Colonel’s Fall. By F. M. Peard. In ‘Princess Alethea.’ (Smith, Elder, & Co.)
A gentleman, who, finding his own house deserted on his return from a journey, tries to get in by a window, falls into the water-butt, and is taken for a burglar.
949. Pay your Debt; or, Jack Colquhoun.
950. The Enchanted Sledge.
Anyone who chances to possess the first year’s volume of ‘Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,’ 1838, will find these two capital stories, the one in [No. 25], the other in [No. 19]. A good many years later there was an excellent bit about a stork brought home from the London Docks in a cab—about 1855.
951. The Abstraction. In ‘Hood’s Comic Annual for 1833.’
Many more readings may be found in these annuals by anyone who can disinter them.