Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) ONCE A WEEK BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE DAY'S PLAY THE HOLIDAY ROUND THE SUNNY SIDE ONCE ON A TIME NOT THAT IT MATTERS IF I MAY FIRST PLAYS SECOND PLAYS MR. PIM ONCE A WEEK BY A. A. MILNE AUTHOR OF "THE DAY'S PLAY" AND "THE HOLIDAY ROUND" THIRD EDITION METHUEN & CO LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published_ _October 15th, 1914_ _Second Edition_ _March ... 1917_ _Third Edition_ _1922_ Transcriber's Note Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. An expanded table of contents, in addition to the one originally published, has been provided below: THE HEIR WINTER SPORT A BAKER'S DOZEN A TRAGEDY IN LITTLE THE FINANCIER THE DOUBLE A BREATH OF LIFE "UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT" A FAREWELL TOUR THE TRUTH ABOUT HOME RAILS THE KING'S SONS DISAPPOINTMENT AMONG THE ANIMALS A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA OLD FRIENDS GETTING MARRIED HOME AFFAIRS AN INSURANCE ACT BACHELOR RELICS LORDS TEMPORAL THE MISSING CARD SILVER LININGS THE ORDER OF THE BATH A TRUNK CALL OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES THE PARTING GUEST THE LANDSCAPE GARDENER THE SAME OLD STORY THE SPREADING WALNUT TREE DEFINITIONS A BILLIARD LESSON BURLESQUES THE SEASIDE NOVELETTE THE SECRET OF THE ARMY AEROPLANE THE HALO THEY GAVE THEMSELVES A DIDACTIC NOVEL MERELY PLAYERS ON THE BAT'S BACK UNCLE EDWARD THE RENASCENCE OF BRITAIN THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT ONE OF OUR SUFFERERS IN THE SWIM THE MEN WHO SUCCEED THE HEIR THE STATESMAN THE MAGNATE THE DOCTOR THE NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR THE COLLECTOR THE ADVENTURER THE EXPLORER TO MY COLLABORATOR WHO BUYS THE INK AND PAPER LAUGHS AND, IN FACT, DOES ALL THE REALLY DIFFICULT PART OF THE BUSINESS THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF A WINTER'S MORNING IN SWITZERLAND CONTENTS PAGE THE HEIR 1 WINTER SPORT 29 A BAKER'S DOZEN 61 GETTING MARRIED 127 HOME AFFAIRS 149 OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES 183 BURLESQUES 215 MERELY PLAYERS 251 THE MEN WHO SUCCEED 281