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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- 

 Lectures Journey 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 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 



