Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's Notes:

1. Page scan source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bUAPAAAAQAAJ&dq
(Oxford University)

2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].

FRIVOLITIES

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

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TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST.

_Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d_.

With Illustrations by Harold Piffard

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_Truth_: "I read _Tom Ossington's Ghost_ the other night and was afraid to go upstairs In the dark after it."

_To-Day_: "An entrancing book, but people with weak nerves had better not read it at night."

_The World_: "Mr. Marsh has been Inspired by an entirely original idea, and has worked it out with great ingenuity. We like the weird, but _not_ repulsive story better than anything he has ever done."

_Sketch_: "Opens with a singularly dramatic and exciting situation, and the interest thus at once aroused is sustained steadily to the close."

_Star_: "A thrilling ghost story. The writing is vigorous and dramatic."

_Weekly Times and Echo_: "A capital story. ALL sorts of readers will enjoy _Tom Ossington's Ghost_."

_Manchester Guardian_: "A ghost to be a success must be able to leave an impression of indefinable terror in those whom it haunts. It should, in a word, 'give them the creeps,' and bad ones. _Tom Ossington_ was completely successful in this."

FRIVOLITIES

ESPECIALLY ADDRESSED TO THOSE WHO
ARE TIRED OF BEING SERIOUS

BY

RICHARD MARSH

AUTHOR OF

"TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST," "CURIOS: SOME STRANGE ADVENTURES
OF TWO BACHELORS," "THE BEETLE: A MYSTERY," ETC.

LONDON

JAMES BOWDEN

10 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.

1899

CONTENTS

The Purse which was Found.

For One Night Only.

Returning a Verdict.

The Chancellor's Ward.

A Honeymoon Trip.

The Burglar's Blunder.

Ninepence.

A Battlefield up-to-Date.

Mr. Harland's Pupils.

A Burglar Alarm.

A Lesson in Sculling.

Outside.

FRIVOLITIES

The purse which was found