Little Rays of Moonshine _BOOKS BY A. P. HERBERT_ THE BOMBER GIPSY THE SECRET BATTLE THE HOUSE-BY-THE-RIVER LITTLE RAYS OF MOONSHINE _New York: Alfred A. Knopf_ Little Rays of Moonshine By A. P. Herbert [Illustration] New York Alfred · A. · Knopf 1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEDICATED WITH RESPECT TO LESLIE SCOTT, K.C., M.P. Most of these pieces have appeared in the pages of _Punch_, and I have to thank the Proprietors of that paper for their courtesy in permitting me to republish. “The Book of Jonah” appeared in _The London Mercury_, “The Supreme Court” in _The Outlook_, “The Art of Drawing” and “Reading Without Tears” in _Land and Water_, which perished a few weeks later. I thank them all. A.P.H. Contents Wrong Numbers 9 The Genius of Mr. Bradshaw 17 Five Inches 23 Reading Without Tears 28 On With the Dance 35 The Autobiography 42 The White Spat 47 The Art of Drawing 55 About Bathrooms 61 A Criminal Type 67 The Art of Poetry 73 The Book of Jonah 94 The Mystery of the Apple-pie Beds 105 The Grasshopper 112 Little Bits of London 118 I The Supreme Court 118 II “The Bear Garden” 126 III Billingsgate 133 IV The Bloater Show 140 V Bond Street 145 The Little Guiggols 151 Wrong Numbers