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Prefatory Note
Pitiable Objects
'A Health-giving Pursuit
Confirmed Bachelor
Startling Fact! .
Never carry your Gloves in your Hat
Coming Fashion in Bonnets
Badly Hit
What they Said to Themselves
Suburban Felicity .
Mr. Briggs tries a Likely Place for a Perch
Fly-Fishing
Blind with Rage
Sporting Intelligence
Helping Him On
A Delicate Creature

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Not a Bad Idea for Warm Weather
Strengthening Sea Air .
Hoops - a Natural Mistake
Angling in the Serpentine
Not a Bad Judge
Sound Advice
The Course of True Love, etc.
After Supper. - Strange Admission !
The Gentle Craft
Something in That !
Mr. B. goes Angling .
Fly-Fishing. A Ripple on the Water .
The Knife-Trick
A Fine Disposition
In the Temple .
The Battle of the Pianos
Alarming Occurrence
A Tit-Bit
A False Position
Bloomerism!.
Elegant Creatures
Private Theatricals

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Cigarettes and Captainettes
An Addition to the Family .
A Cautious Bird
Was it a Mistake ?
An Idea of Wickedness
Snow-Flakes.
A Disciple of Old Isaac
Well over, anyhow!
Elegant Material for Trousers .
The Marriage Question
A Jolly Old Paterfamilias
Consols at 90 - Consols at 80
A Little Darling
A Bon-Bon from a Juvenile Party
An Object of Interest
Flunkeiana
An Elegant Habit!
Dreadful for Young Oxford.
Amateur Posturing
Fearful Practical Joke .
Going to Cover
The Shuttlecock Nuisance

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Man on the Gray
Rather awkward for Tomkins
Appearance of Things after a Somersault
Fly-Fishing. — Getting a Rise
Did you Ever?
The Test of Gallantry .
Preparing for a Day's Fishing
The Picnic
Friendly, but very Unpleasant
A Great Mental Effort
Discernment
Life in London
The Husband as he ought to be, and as he

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A Table d'Hôte at Paris
Another Pretty Little Americanism .
Yet another Americanism
Framework for a New 'Oss
No Consequence .
The Garret and the Conservatory
Something like a Holiday
Aggravating – Rather !

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Life and Character