Flirtation at the Fountains The Wine-press Castle of Aigle The Market at Vevay The Market, Vevay—A Bargain before the Notary Germans at Montreux Church Terrace, Montreux Tour up the Lake A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS By W. D. Howells CONTENTS A PAIR OF PATIENT LOVERS THE PURSUIT OF THE PIANO. A DIFFICULT CASE. THE MAGIC OF A VOICE. A CIRCLE IN THE WATER. THE STORY OF A PLAY A Novel BY W. D. HOWELLS 1898 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY AND OTHER STORIES BY WILLIAM D. HOWELLS CONTENTS. A Fearful Responsibility At the Sign of the Savage Tonelli's Marriage THE FLIGHT OF PONY BAKER A Boy’s Town Story By W.D. HOWELLS author of “A BOY’S TOWN” “CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY” ETC. ILLUSTRATED Contents CHAP. PAGE I Pony’s Mother, and why he had a Right to run off 3 II The Right that Pony had to run off, from the way his Father acted 15 III Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape 32 IV The Scrape that Jim Leonard got the Boys into 52 V About running away to the Indian Reservation on a Canal-boat, and how the Plan failed 77 VI How the Indians came to the Boy’s Town and Jim Leonard acted the Coward 89 VII How Frank Baker spent the Fourth at Pawpaw Bottom, and saw the Fourth of July Boy 105 VIII How Pony Baker came pretty near running off with a Circus 141 IX How Pony did not quite get off with the Circus 152 X The Adventures that Pony’s cousin, Frank Baker, had with a Pocketful of Money 165 XI How Jim Leonard planned for Pony Baker to run off on a Raft 192 XII How Jim Leonard backed out, and Pony had to give it up 208 Illustrations “ALL THE FELLOWS CAME ROUND AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO NOW” Frontispiece “BEING DRESSED SO WELL WAS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT WAS DONE TO HIM BY HIS MOTHER”4 “‘I’LL LEARN THAT LIMB TO SLEEP IN A COW-BARN!’” 50 “REAL INDIANS, IN BLANKETS, WITH BOWS AND ARROWS” 90 “VERY SMILING-LOOKING” 124 “HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING” 144 “FRANK BAKER WAS ONE OF THOSE FELLOWS THAT EVERY MOTHER WOULD FEEL HER BOY WAS SAFE WITH” 166 “‘WHY, YOU AIN’T AFRAID, ARE YOU, PONY?’” 204 THE COAST OF BOHEMIA By W. D. Howells Biographical Edition 1899 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter I. XXI. II. XXII. III. XXIII. IV. XXIV. V. XXV. VI. XXVI. VII. XXVII. VIII. XXVIII. IX. XXIX. X. XXX. XI. XXXI. XII. XXXII. XIII. XXXIII. XIV. XXXIV. XV. XXXV. XVI. XXXVI. XVII. XXXVII. XVIII. XXXVIII. XIX. XXXIX. XX.