THE FORBIDDEN ROOM:
OR
“MINE ANSWER WAS MY DEED.”
BY
PHŒBE ALLEN.
AUTHOR OF “PLAYING AT BOTANY,” ETC., ETC.
“YOU SAID YOUR SAY.
“MINE ANSWER WAS MY DEED.”
“Idylls of the King.”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. JELLICOE.
LONDON:
WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO.
3 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| [I.] | “BOYS AND GIRLS, AND ALL SORTS” | [1] |
| [II.] | “WHO’S WHO” | [7] |
| [III.] | NOTES AND QUERIES | [12] |
| [IV.] | “IN THE ROSY SUMMER WEATHER” | [16] |
| [V.] | BOAR HUNTING | [21] |
| [VI.] | “IN THE CUCKOO COPSE” | [28] |
| [VII.] | COMING TO BLOWS | [33] |
| [VIII.] | OGRES | [37] |
| [IX.] | “QUITE ’STRORDINARY FUN” | [42] |
| [X.] | “YOU’VE NEVER BEEN QUARRELLING” | [51] |
| [XI.] | “TARRY THE BAKING” | [55] |
| [XII.] | “LIVE PURE, SPEAK TRUTH, RIGHT WRONG” | [63] |
| [XIII.] | “NO, NO, IT IS NOT JUST” | [71] |
| [XIV.] | “A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION” | [78] |
| [XV.] | “FIRST CATCH YOUR BIRD” | [82] |
| [XVI.] | “A COWARD’S TRICK” | [89] |
| [XVII.] | EXECUTING A SENTENCE | [96] |
| [XVIII.] | “WE’RE AWFULLY SORRY NOW” | [105] |
| [XIX.] | “THEY HAVE NOT GONE YET” | [115] |
| [XX.] | THE KING OF MUFFS | [119] |
| [XXI.] | “A VERY SAD LITTLE BOY” | [129] |
| [XXII.] | “NOW THESE BE SECRET THINGS” | [134] |
| [XXIII.] | “TOUCH YOU!” | [142] |
| [XXIV.] | “HURRAH! HURRAH!” | [149] |
| [XXV.] | A TRAGICAL AFTERNOON | [155] |
| [XXVI.] | “WHATEVER WILL THE MASTER SAY?” | [162] |
| [XXVII.] | WHAT THE MASTER DID SAY | [171] |
| [XXVIII.] | “A PRETTY PICTURE” | [179] |
| [XXIX.] | “WHERE’S GASTON” | [187] |
| [XXX.] | “THE BESTEST BEST” | [193] |