By R. C. Lehmann
By R. C. Lehmann
Author of "Anni Fugaces", "Crumbs Of Pity", And "Light And Shade"
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head
New York: John Lane Company MCMXVIII
Printed in Great Britain by Tumbull & Spears, Edinburgh
NOTE
All but two of the pieces here printed appeared originally in Punch. My thanks are due to Messrs Bradbury, Agnew & Co., the Proprietors of Punch, for permitting me to reprint them here. "For Wilma" was first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and appears here by the courtesy of the Editor.
R. C. L.
CONTENTS
THE VAGABOND
SINGING WATER
CRAGWELL END
THE BIRD IN THE ROOM
KILLED IN ACTION
EPITAPH
TO FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT ROBINSON, V.C.
PAGAN FANCIES
ROBIN, THE SEA-BOY
THE BIRTHDAY
THE DANCE
PANSIES
THE DRAGON OF WINTER HILL
FLUFFY, A CAT
THE LEAN-TO-SHED
THE CONTRACT
JOHN
THE SPARROW
GELERT
AVE, CAESAR!
SOO-TI
THE BATH
PETER, A PEKINESE PUPPY
THE DOGS' WELCOME
ODE TO JOHN BRADBURY
TEETH-SETTING
THE DEATH OF EUCLID
TO POSTUMOUS IN OCTOBER
A RAMSHACKLE ROOM
THE LAST STRAW
AT PUTNEY
"A LITTLE BIT OF BLUE"
THE LAST COCK-PHEASANT
IN MEMORIAM