Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) =By Ian Hay= A KNIGHT ON WHEELS. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece. A MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece. THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK A KNIGHT ON WHEELS A KNIGHT ON WHEELS BY IAN HAY [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY =The Riverside Press Cambridge= 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY IAN HAY BEITH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published September 1914_ TO H. M. S. CONTENTS BOOK ONE THE MISOGYNISTS I. ENVIRONMENT 3 II. LE PREMIER PAS 19 III. SAMSON AND DELILAH 31 IV. HEREDITY 46 V. MISTAKEN IDENTITY 59 VI. RENOVARE DOLOREM 66 VII. THE INCONSISTENCY OF UNCLE JOSEPH 78 VIII. THE HAMPSTEAD HEATH CONSPIRACY 90 IX. GENUS IRRITABILE 100 X. THE ECCENTRIC GENTLEMAN 109 XI. RED GABLES 129 XII. THE OFFICIAL DEMISE OF TOMMY SMITH 133 BOOK TWO _LABOR OMNIA VINCIT_ XIII. THE GOLDEN AGE 141 XIV. THE IRON AGE 174 XV. OMEGA, CERTAINLY NOT 182 XVI. THINGS 194 XVII. PEOPLE 203 XVIII. MY SON TIMOTHY 216 XIX. PLAIN MEN AND FAIR WOMEN 225 XX. THE PROVING OF THE BRAKE 248 BOOK THREE _OMNIA VINCIT_