FANCY FREE
BY
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1901
TO
FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND
WITH MOST HEARTY
REGARD
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Zagabog | [ 1] |
| Quite Out of the Common | [ 7] |
| Johnson’s Boswell | [ 61] |
| The Nine Musketeers | [ 78] |
| The Game of Life | [ 94] |
| “Alas! Poor Ghost” | [ 101] |
| Greensmith’s Charade | [ 120] |
| The Mate of the “Bunch o’ Keys” | [ 136] |
| The Transmigrations of Tarver | [ 141] |
| The First Word | [ 166] |
| “Star o’ Boston” | [ 175] |
| The Sacrifice | [ 189] |
| The Diary of a Perfect Gentleman | [ 196] |
| Inoculation Day | [ 210] |
| A Story without an End | [ 221] |
| The Biography of Peter Parkinson | [ 231] |
| The Jacky-Toad | [ 252] |
| A Celestial Chat | [ 271] |
| The Archdeacon and the Deinosaurs | [ 279] |
| The Bills | [ 297] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
| “But you’re a Poor Thing in Tigers” | J. A. Shepherd | [ Frontispiece] |
| “They’re Little Girls and Boys!” | S. H. Sime | [ 5] |
| “I lifted up my Voice and called for a Policeman” | A. H. Buckland | [ 44] |
| “Mr. Garrick surprised Mr. Boswell” | Enoch Ward | [ 72] |
| “Ascended a Hand, like the sight of Land” | Arthur Layard | [ 138] |
| “‘Old Tom Rum,’ read out ‘Star o’ Boston’” | [ 181] | |
| “Gormed if I didn’t think I’d got ’e!” | René Bull | [ 253] |
| “Very passable Irish Whisky” | Cecil Aldin | [ 288] |