FANCY FREE
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
The Human Boy
ALSO BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Lying Prophets
Children of the Mist
Sons of the Morning
The Striking Hours
“BUT YOU’RE A POOR THING IN TIGERS”
PAGE 154
FANCY FREE
BY
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1901
TO
FRANCIS COWLEY BURNAND
WITH MOST HEARTY
REGARD
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Zagabog | 1 |
| Quite Out of the Common | 7 |
| Johnson’s Boswell | 61 |
| The Nine Musketeers | 78 |
| The Game of Life | 94 |
| “Alas! Poor Ghost” | 101 |
| Greensmith’s Charade | 120 |
| The Mate of the “Bunch o’ Keys” | 136 |
| The Transmigrations of Tarver | 141 |
| The First Word | 166 |
| “Star o’ Boston” | 175 |
| The Sacrifice | 189 |