Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
_Some eight of these papers appear in print for the first time. For those which have been published before, my thanks are due to the Editors of “The Onlooker” and “The Ladies’ Field” for permission to reprint._
Every morning she comes and looks over the old place. I suppose she is staying in the neighbourhood. From every side she views it and all the while she talks to herself. Now, wo...
4. Part 4I pocketed my notebook and set off for the East End. Oh, there were all sorts of flowers and doubtless it looked the funniest of flower shows you would ever have seen. For examp...
6. Part 6“Then, don’t you see,” went on Cruikshank, finding his feet once more. “Then they all separated, went into different countries, and when they saw a cow in France they called it...
2. Part 2Bellwattle—she is named Bellwattle for the simple reason that one day in an inspired moment, she called her husband Cruikshank, and he replied giving her the name Bellwattle, qu...
5. Part 5“Maybe they’ll be safe till then. They’re sturdy plants.” At which I can see him turning over in his bed and passing into one of those short hours of sleep into which Nature so...
7. Part 7Ah! but if we only did say these things aloud, instead of thinking them in silence. For ’tis only in silence now—as they would understand it in Ireland—that we say what we reall...
1. Part 1_Some eight of these papers appear in print for the first time. For those which have been published before, my thanks are due to the Editors of “The Onlooker” and “The Ladies’ F...
8. Part 8No—this was the Viking’s own ship—the most priceless possession that he had. Can you not see it plainly, with sails set, speeding forth upon its last voyage—the last voyage for...