BY BARRY PAIN

NEW YORK

DUFFIELD AND COMPANY

1921

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S NOTE 7

I. THE CATASTROPHIC FAMILY 9

II. EBULLIENT YOUTH 18

III. GLADSTONE LLOYD GEORGE INMEMORISON DR. BENGER HORLICK 26

IV. THE SOLES 40

V. MISFIRES 50

VI. TESTIMONIALS ROYAL APPRECIATION 64

VII. SELF ESTIMATE 78 LATE EXTRA 83

"And every week you opened your hoard Of truthful and tasteful tales How you sat on the knees of the Laureate Lord, How you danced with the Prince of Wales And we knew that the Sunday Times had scored In Literature and Sales."

To Margot in Heaven.

BY CLARENCE G. HENNESSY (circa 1985).

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