CHAPTER XXXVIII OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN—BATTLE OF VITTORIA CHAPTER XXXIX SAN SEBASTIAN CHAPTER XL CAPTIVITY CHAPTER XLI BATTLES OP THE PYRENEES CHAPTER XLII A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE, AND PREPARATIONS FOR ESCAPE CHAPTER XLIII ESCAPE FROM SAN SEBASTIAN, AND RETURN TO ENGLAND CHAPTER XLIV THE CRISIS APPROACHES CHAPTER XLV CONCLUSION PUCK ON PEGASUS By H. Cholmondeley Pennell Illustrated By Leech, Phiz, Portch, and Tenniel With a Frontispiece By George Cruikshank Fourth Edition 1862. CONTENTS PUCK ON PEGASUS. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THE NIGHT MAIL NORTH SONG OF IN-THE-WATER. THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. THE PETITION 'THE POET CLOSE.' THE DU CHILLU CONTROVERSY ADVERTISEMENT OUR SWEET RECRUITING SERGEANTS. SONNET DERBY DAY AH, WHO? "DAILY TRIALS." HOW WE GOT TO THE BRIGHTON REBLEW SCHOOL "FEEDS." LORD HOLLYGREENS COURTSHIP LAY OF THE DESERTED INFLUENZED I'VE LOST MY ———— THE VIII CRUSADE. IN MEDIÆVOS. FIRE! COUNT CABOUR. THE WELL OF TRUTH PERILS OF THE FINE ARTS. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT (IRISH) BRIGADE WUS, EVER WUS TOO BAD, YOU KNOW. "THE DAYS THE THING." GHOSTRIES. "MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE." ODE TO HAMPSTEAD. OUR TRAVELLER. CHINESE PUZZLES. ETCETERA. WHAT THE PRINCE OF I DREAMT. CASE IN LUNACY. A GIGGLE FOR "EXCELSIER" THE THREAD OF LIFE. STAGE, STUDY & STUDIO by John Leech and Others INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS PANTOMIMICS PAGE Rehearsing the "fish" ballet 1 Billy and Bunny 3 Winning the gloves 4 Modern languages taught in one lesson 5 Theatre Royal—Nursery 6 An ex(bus)horse-tive argument 7 A pict-ure 8 A swallow out of season 9 "With a neck like that" 11 Experienced young fellow 12 Two transformation scenes 13 Not the correct way of pudding it 15 Humanizing influence of pantomime 16 ON THE STAGE AND OFF Prompt but not prepared 17 A wordless story 18 English as she is spoke 23 Cassius 24 Acting under difficulties 25 Ever-popular criminal on the stage 27 On the stage—and off 28-9 When actors are Members of Parliament 31 When actors become modest 32 "Still running" 33 The part of Hamlet 34 Good and bad business at the theatre 35 "A little padding" 37 The actor's one topic—himself 39 A side-box talk 40 The bald baron 41-4 FUN AT THE PLAY "Are you sitting on my hat?" 45 Delights of theatre-going 46-7 "Not so long as four solos" 49 A little ruse 50 A morning concert 52 Pit, boxes, and gallery 54 Playgoers and their eccentricities 56 Credit where credit is due 57 A "civil" retort 58 AMONG THE AMATEURS[iv] At a fancy ball 61 Private theatricals 63 Private theatricals at the Titwillows' 65 THE POETS' CORNER Portrait of a gentleman 67 The poets illustrated 69 No! Don't 70 The poets illustrated 74 "Mariar Martin, or the Red Baarn" 75 An illustrated edition of the poets 77-9 Poets and their patrons 80 MAINLY ABOUT AUTHORS Would-be novelist 85 Lady Audley's secret 86 Perfect sincerity, or, thinkings aloud 88 The ancient Britons 88 A rural study 89 "The great cypher work" 90