Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman and Hall edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Reprinted Pieces CONTENTS PAGE _The Long Voyage_ 309 _The Begging-letter Writer_ 317 _A Child’s Dream of a Star_ 324 _Our English Watering-place_ 327 _Our French Watering-place_ 335 _Bill-sticking_ 346 “_Births_. _Mrs. Meek_, _of a Son_” 357 _Lying Awake_ 361 _The Ghost of Art_ 367 _Out of Town_ 373 _Out of the Season_ 379 _A Poor Man’s Tale of a Patent_ 386 _The Noble Savage_ 391 _A Flight_ 397 _The Detective Police_ 406 _Three_ “_Detective_” _Anecdotes_ 422 _I.—The Pair of Gloves_ _II.—The Artful Touch_ _III.—The Sofa_ _On Duty with Inspector Field_ 430 _Down with the Tide_ 442 _A Walk in a Workhouse_ 451 _Prince Bull_. _A Fairy Tale_ 457 _A Plated Article_ 462 _Our Honourable Friend_ 470 _Our School_ 475 _Our Vestry_ 481 _Our Bore_ 487 _A Monument of French Folly_ 494 [Picture: The long voyage] THE LONG VOYAGE WHEN the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel. Such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood; and I wonder it should have come to pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten.