Chapter I: Front Matter

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A MAN'S MAN

by

IAN HAY

* * * * *

=By Ian Hay=

A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece.
A MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece.
THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK

* * * * *

A MAN'S MAN

A MAN'S MAN

by

IAN HAY

Author of "The Right Stuff"

With Frontispiece by James Montgomery Flagg

Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge

Copyright, 1909, by William Blackwood and Sons Copyright, 1910, by Houghton Mifflin Company

All Rights Reserved

Published September 1910

TO
T. B.

_Partner_ (_after several collisions_). I should think you were more at home in a boat than a ballroom, Mr. Rudderford!

_Little Bobbie Rudderford_ (_the famous Oxbridge coxswain_). Yes; and by Jove, I'd sooner steer eight men than one woman, any day!--_Punch._

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE

I. NAVAL MANOEUVRES 3

II. INTRODUCES THE HEROINE OF THIS NARRATIVE 22

III. JIMMY MARRABLE 28

IV. AN UNDERSTUDY 49

V. THE JOY OF BATTLE 61

BOOK TWO

_FORTITER IN RE_

VI. KNIGHT-ERRANTRY _À LA MODE_ 81

VII. THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE 112

VIII. A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE 130

IX. _LITERA SCRIPTA MANET_ 146

X. THE END OF AN ODYSSEY 157

BOOK THREE

_SUAVITER IN MODO_

XI. SEALED ORDERS 179

XII. A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE 195

XIII. _VARIUM ET MUTABILE_ 223

XIV. BUSINESS ONLY 247

BOOK FOUR

THE UNJUST STEWARD

XV. DEPUTATIONS--WITH A DIFFERENCE 263

XVI. IN WHICH CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG, AND JOAN
MISSES HER CUE 292

XVII. IN WHICH CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, AND HUGHIE
MISSES HIS TRAIN 320

XVIII. _EX MACHINA_ 339

XIX. IN WHICH LOVE FLIES OUT OF THE WINDOW 354

XX. SINFUL WASTE OF A PENNY STAMP 372