CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 BIKTH AND EARLY LIFE. 



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Birth Parentage Youthful Delicacy of Constitution Juvenile Precocity 

 Spelling and Art Lack of Mathematical Talent First Attendance 

 at Church Removal of the Family to Oxford Outdoor Life and its 

 Results Aquatic Gambols How to catch Crayfish Boyish Escapades 

 A Juvenile Naturalist and his Ways Pets First Visit to the Ash- 

 molean Museum School Life A Stern Discipline Natural History 

 again Snake-racing Outdoor Sports An Accident in the Cricket 

 Field Painful Experiences Subsequent Accidents Matriculation at 

 Merton College, Oxford College Pets Caterpillar Breeding on a Large 

 Scale Snakes again Recreations An Unexplained Mystery Whose 

 was the Poker? A Night Assault Repulse of the Assailants B.A. 

 Degree Love for Classics " Horace " Reviewed Classical Properties 

 versus Scientific Nomenclature Tutorship at Little Hinton Return to 

 Oxford Anatomical Studies Work with the Microscope Ordination 1 



CHAPTER II. 

 CLERICAL LIFE AND WORK. 



Parish Work The Boatman's Floating Chapel Ordination as Priest- 

 Resignation of Curacy Chaplaincy to St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 Marriage Removal- to Belvedere and Resignation of Chaplaincy 

 Honorary Curacy at Erith Old-fashioned Services An Explosion and . 

 its Results Organising a Choir " Aggrieved Parishioners " A Burn- 

 ing in Effigy Presentment to the Archbishop Cessation of Opposition 

 Sole Charge Death of the Vicar of Erith Subsequent Clerical Work 

 Style of Preaching Sermon Notes Maps and Blackboards in the 

 Pulpit "Flower Sermons" Complaints of Nervousness Stammering 

 Cured Last Sermon The Funeral Reform Association Hatred of 

 " Mourning " Work for the Cause . . . . . . .24 



