Chapter I: Preface

My thanks are due to the Editor of “The Granta” for permission to reprint “In a Canadian Canoe,” “The Nine Muses Minus One,” and “The Celestial Grocery.” They have been carefully revised, and considerable additions have been made. The rest of the volume has not appeared before, so far as I know.

Although this book appears in a “Library of Wit and Humour,” I have not tried to make it _all_ witty and humorous: I wanted there to be some background. I am not sure that I have not made it _all_ background.

B. P.

CLEMENT’S INN,
_July 1891_.

CONTENTS.

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IN A CANADIAN CANOE--

I. On Art and Sardines,--but more especially Sardines 1

II. On Exaltation: together with an Anecdote from the
“Entertainments” of Kapnides 8

III. On Self-Deception: together with the Dream of the
Dean’s Preparations 15

IV. On Reflection: to which is added the Story of the Tin
Heart 22