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_ * * * TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST. _Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d_. With Illustrations by Harold Piffard * * * _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 I. The first applicant arrived just as I was sitting down to breakfast. I went out to him in the hall at once. He was tall, thin, and distinctly seedy.