CONTENTS. x\r 



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Season The Season of 1886-87 Appreciative Seamen An Amusing 

 Incident at Armagh A Troublesome Accident and its Results The 

 Season of 1887-88 The Last Season of All Beginning of the End- 

 Lecture at the London Institution Scottish Tour Ominous Antici- 

 pations Missing a Lecture Serious Illness The Last Two Sketch- 

 LecturesJourney to Coventry Arrival, and Collapse The Doctor's 

 Verdict Last Hours and Death 254 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 HOME LIFE. 



Advantages and Disadvantages of Authorship Trials of a Successful 

 Author Methodical and Unmethodical Writers Devotion to Work 

 Power of Work The Daily Programme Natural History Queries 

 Autograph Collectors Example of Correspondence Revision of Proof 

 Sheets Changes in Later Life Love of Reading Wonderful Memory 

 Persistent Labours Note-Books and Extract-Books Marginal 

 Annotations Character of Notes The Author in his Study Order in 

 Disorder Live Stock in the Study Missing Tools, &c. A Well- 

 furnished Writing Table Amateur Carpentry Bell-hanging, &c. 

 The " Oiled Feather " Sealing-wax Varnish Amateur Book-binding 

 Threatenings of "Writer's Cramp" Use of a Type- Writer 

 Illegibility of MS. The Type- Writer in the Train Indifference to 

 Public Opinion Sensitiveness to Interruption Sufferings from 

 Dyspepsia General Health Use of the Turkish Bath . . .267 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



PETS. 



Pets of Childhood Pet Snakes " Apollo " the Bull-dog His Mischievous 

 Propensities " Roughie " andj "Bosco" " Pret" and his Successors 

 "Grip" the Raven An Overdose of Linen A Pet Chameleon- 

 Blind- worms, old and young Feeding them with Slugs Pet Toads 

 Various Lizards Tortoises A Bat and its Diet Cage-birds Outdoor 

 Pets Daily Pensioners Fat versus Bread-crumbs The Scene on the 

 Window-ledge Impatient Sparrows Tit-mice, and how they were 

 fed Pet Lions and Tigers How to get on friendly terms with a Lion 

 Adventure with a Cross-grained Dog Special Fondness for Cats 

 A Second Mahomet . . 284 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 RECREATIONS. 



Skill in the Gymnasium Result upon Health Appearance as " Mr. 

 Bouncer" ir "Verdant Green" Accident at Cricket Interest in 



