Chapter I: Front Matter

_Books by_
_HUGH WALPOLE_

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_Novels_

THE WOODEN HORSE
MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL
THE DARK FOREST
THE SECRET CITY
THE CATHEDRAL

_The London Novels_

FORTITUDE
THE DUCHESS OF WREXE
THE GREEN MIRROR
THE CAPTIVES
THE YOUNG ENCHANTED

_Fantasies_

MARADICK AT FORTY
THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE
PORTRAIT OF MAN WITH RED HAIR (_In Preparation_)

_Books About Children_

THE GOLDEN SCARE CROW
JEREMY
JEREMY AND HAMLET

_Belles-Lettres_

JOSEPH CONRAD: A CRITICAL STUDY

Jeremy and Hamlet

A Chronicle of
Certain Incidents
In the Lives
Of a Boy,
A Dog, and a
Country Town

By
HUGH WALPOLE

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

First published 1923

_Printed in Great Britain._

To
MY FATHER AND MOTHER

FROM
THEIR DEVOTED FRIEND
THEIR SON

It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear;
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night——
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
—BEN JONSON.

CONTENTS

1. COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN
2. CONSCIENCE MONEY
3. THE DANCE
4. SALADIN AND THE BLACK BISHOP
5. POODLE
6. THE NIGHT RAIDERS
7. YOUNG BALTIMORE
8. THE RUFFIANS
9. THE PICTURE-BOOK
10. UNCLE PERCY
11. THE RUNAWAYS
12. A FINE DAY

Jeremy and Hamlet