Tea-Table Talk

by Jerome K. Jerome

Transcribed from the 1903 Hutchinson & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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TEA-TABLE TALK

By JEROME K. JEROME
Author of “Paul Kelver” . . . .
“Three Men in a Boat,” etc., etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
ON PLATE PAPER BY
FRED PEGRAM . . .

LONDON
HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1903

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	PAGE
Who would be a chaperone?	Frontispiece
He would fling himself on his knees before her, never noticing the dog	[14]
I left them at it	[16]
He went with her and made himself ridiculous at the dressmaker’s	[20]
Why should we seek to explain away all the beautiful things of life?	[26]
Are we so sure that art does elevate?	[38]
The artist knew precisely the sort of girl that ought to be there	[42]
A man’s work ’tis till set of sun, but a woman’s work is never done!	[52]
Does the lady out shopping ever fall in love with the waiter at the bun-shop?	[56]
Woman has been appointed by Nature the trustee of the children	[58]
Comparing himself the while with Molière reading to his cook	[80]
The singer may be a heavy, fleshy man with a taste for beer	[84]
It is the fool who imagines her inhuman	[100]
It seized a natural human passion and turned it to good uses	[104]
She suggested that poets and novelists should take service for a year in any large drapery or millinery establishment	[106]
Who is it succeeds in escaping the law of the hive?	[126]