[Original]

"The treatment of the illustrious dead by the quick, often reminds me of the gravedigger in Hamlet, and the skull of poor defunct Yorick."—w.h.b.

"Multi ad sapientiam pervenire potuissent, nisi se jam pervenisse putassent."

"There's nothing so amusing as human nature, but then you must have some one to laugh with."—C. S. B.

"Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears."—Sir P. Sidney.


CONTENTS

[ PREFACE. ]

[ RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. ]

[ HER LAST HALF-CROWN. ]