Forty Years of 'Spy'

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Leslie Ward. Forty Years of 'Spy'

CHAPTER I. EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER II. ETON AND AFTER

CHAPTER III. MY FATHER'S FRIENDS

CHAPTER IV. WORK AND PLAY

AT KNEBWORTH

CHAPTER V 'SPY'

CHAPTER VI. CARICATURE

OXFORD DONS

CHAPTER VII. PORTRAITURE

CHAPTER VIII. MY CLUBS

POKER PLAYERS AT THE FIELDING CLUB

CHAPTER IX. THE LAW

CHAPTER X. THE CHURCH AND THE VARSITIES—PARSONS OF MANY CREEDS AND DENOMINATIONS

CHAPTER XI. IN THE LOBBY

CHAPTER XII. VOYAGE ON H.M.S. HERCULES

CHAPTER XIII. YACHTSMEN—FOREIGN RULERS

CHAPTER XIV. MUSICIANS—AUTHORS—ACTORS AND ARTISTS

CHAPTER XV. NOTABLE PEERS—TANGIER—THE TECKS

CHAPTER XVI. MARRIAGE—SOME CLERICS—FAREWELL TO VANITY FAIR

CHAPTER XVII. A HOLIDAY MISFORTUNE—ROYAL PORTRAITS—FAREWELL

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Next I remember my youthful digestion being put to test by a big boy who "stood me," against my will, "bumpers" of shandy-gaff; and for my first smoke a cheroot of no choice blend, the inevitable results succeeding.

Shortly afterwards I was initiated into the mysteries of school life; I had to collect cockroaches to let loose during prayers; and of course the usual fate of a new boy befell me. I was asked the old formula: or something to this effect—

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"Flora!" said my stage-struck sister, in trembling tones, with one hand raised (à la Lady Macbeth)—and the poor girl under the clothes cowered deeper and deeper.

Two seconds later a large brick rattled down and subsided noisily into the fireplace.

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