LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1906
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
[An Outpost of Ireland]
[Picnics]
[Boon Companions]
[The Biography of a Pump]
[Hunting Mahatmas]
[A Patrick's Day Hunt]
[Alsatia]
["In Sickness and in Health"]
[Horticultural]
[Out of Hand]
[A Record of Holiday]
[Lost, Stolen, or Strayed]
[Children of the Captivity]
[Slipper's A B C of Fox-Hunting]
The Authors desire to thank the Editors of the Magazines and Periodicals in which the following Sketches have appeared, for their permission to reprint them here; and they wish also to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs. Constable & Co. in permitting the reproduction of "A Patrick's Day Hunt."
October 1906
ILLUSTRATIONS
["*She found the idea highly humorous*"] . . . Frontispiece