Chapter I: Front Matter

CIRCULAR SAWS

_Other books by the same Author_

_Verse_

LONDON SONNETS
SHYLOCK REASONS WITH MR. CHESTERTON

CIRCULAR SAWS

By

Humbert Wolfe

LONDON
CHAPMAN & HALL LTD.
1923

Printed in England
at The Westminster Press
411a Harrow Road, London, W.9

Three or four of these tales have appeared in _The Weekly Westminster Gazette_ and _The Chapbook_. The author’s thanks are due for permission to reprint them here. Thanks are also due to the Editor of _The Saturday Review_ for permission to republish the verses in the story called “Dis Aliter Visum.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I. Waste not, want not 1

II. Looking for a needle in a haystack 2

III. All’s well that ends well 3

IV. Faint heart never won fair lady 5

V. Truth is stranger than fiction 7

VI. A rose by any other name 10

VII. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing 12

VIII. Two wrongs do not make a right 14

IX. Business is business 16

X. Let sleeping dogs lie 19

XI. It’s never too late to mend 20

XII. Ars longa, vita brevis 24

XIII. Sunt certi denique fines 30

XIV. Heaven helps those that help themselves 35

XV. “You never can tell” 37

XVI. United we stand 41

XVII. Ici-Gît 44

XVIII. Silence is golden 45

XIX. Look before you leap 48

XX. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity 52

XXI. Quis separabit? 53

XXII. Men, not measures 55

XXIII. You cannot have your cake and eat it 62

XXIV. In vino veritas 66

XXV. Tantae religio 71

XXVI. On entertaining angels unawares 73

XXVII. Tempus fugit 77

XXVIII. You can take a horse to the water 78

XXIX. Half a loaf is better than no bread 80

XXX. In for a penny, in for a pound 84

XXXI. Quantity is better than quality 89

XXXII. Charity begins at home 95

XXXIII. Dis aliter visum 99

XXXIV. Parallel lines do not meet 109

XXXV. Cherchez le juif 111

XXXVI. [Greek: gnôthi seauton] 119

XXXVII. E pur si muove 120

XXXVIII. The game and the candle 124

XXXIX. Once bitten twice shy 126

XL. It takes two to make a peace 127

XLI. Vicisti Galilæe 130