Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover] [Illustration: "LET ME GIVE YOU ONE HINT, MY LAD" (p. 48)] HAPPY-GO-LUCKY BY IAN HAY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. BROCK BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY IAN HAY BEITH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published August, 1913_ TO T. S. A. B. CONTENTS _BOOK ONE_ YOUTHFUL EXCURSIONS I. A Brief Introduction II. The First Freak III. Io Saturnalia! _BOOK TWO_ A BLIND ALLEY IV. Travels with a First Reserve V. Very Odious VI. Forbidden Fruit--A Digression VII. Unearned Increment VIII. A Relapse IX. The Only Way Out X. Still at Large XI. The First Turning to the Right _BOOK THREE_ THE RIGHT ROAD XII. Mice and Men XIII. Lucidity Itself XIV. Another Cosy Chat, with an Interruption XV. A Day of Calm Reflection XVI. An Impossible Family XVII. The Word "Swank" XVIII. De L’Audace, et encore de l’Audace, et toujours de l’Audace! XIX. Sidelights on a Public Character XX. Rehearsed Effects XXI. Unrehearsed XXII. The Real Tilly XXIII. The Real Mr. Welwyn XXIV. A Garden Plot in Russell Square XXV. Purely Commercial XXVI. The Final Freak ILLUSTRATIONS "Let me give you one Hint, my Lad" (p. 48) . . . _Frontispiece_ "Chorus once more, please, Gentlemen!" "How do you do, Miss Weller?" said Lady Adela, mystified but well-bred "Reflect!" urged the Broker’s Man, gently resisting Percy’s Efforts to eject him "This is very naughty," he announced reproachfully HAPPY-GO-LUCKY BOOK ONE YOUTHFUL EXCURSIONS HAPPY-GO-LUCKY CHAPTER I A BRIEF INTRODUCTION They--that is, the London-and-the-south-thereof contingent of the Hivite House at Grandwich--always celebrated the first morning of the holidays by breakfasting together at the Imperial Hotel at Oakleigh, as a preliminary to catching the nine-fifty-two.