ELIZA
Says Robert Barr
in The Idler:
- "... and as for
Barry Pain's 'Eliza' I
question if anything more
deliciously humourous,
and of a humour so re-
strained, has been writ-
ten since the time of
Lamb."
"It was true I ran
into the horse." (See page 24.)
LIZA
BY
BARRY PAIN
ILLUSTRATED BY
WALLACE GOLDSMITH
BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
CONTENTS
page Eliza's Husband 3 The Cards 13 Eliza's Mother 23 Miss Sakers 33 The Orchestrome 41 The Tonic Port 49 The Gentleman of Title 59 The Hat 67 My Fortune 73 Shakespeare 81 The Unsolved Problem 89 The Day Off 97 The Mushroom 107 The Pleasant Surprise 115 The Mopworths 123 The Pen-wiper 135 The 9.43 143 The Conundrums 151 The Ink 159 The Public Scandal 167 The "Christian Martyr" 175 The Pagrams 183 Promotion 191
ILLUSTRATIONS
page "It was true I ran into the horse" (See page 24) Frontispiece "Filled the coal-cellar right up at summer prices" 9 "He seemed to think it was not essential" 15 "‘Could you, please, go away?’" 45 "It had a singularly happy expression on its face" 54 The Gentleman of Title 60 "I picked the hat up, and gave it one sound, savage kick" 70
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