Sketches in Lavender Blue and Green

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Jerome K. Jerome

by
JEROME K. JEROME
author of “three men in a boat”
“three men on the bummel,” “novel notes”
“the idle thoughts of an idle fellow,” etc.

BRISTOL
J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd., Quay Street
LONDON
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited
1920

Contents:

Reginald Blake, Financier and Cad
An item of Fashionable Intelligence
Blasé Billy
The Choice of Cyril Harjohn
The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway
Portrait of a Lady
The Man Who Would Manage
The Man Who Lived For Others
A Man of Habit
The Absent-minded Man
A Charming Woman
Whibley’s Spirit
The Man Who Went Wrong
The Hobby Rider
The Man Who Did Not Believe In Luck
Dick Dunkerman’s Cat
The Minor Poet’s Story
The Degeneration of Thomas Henry
The City of The Sea
Driftwood

La-ven-der’s blue, did-dle, did-dle!
   La-ven-der’s green;
When I am king, did-dle, did-dle!
   You shall be queen.

Call up your men, did-dle, did-dle!
   Set them to work;
Some to the plough, did-dle, did-dle!
   Some to the cart.

Some to make hay, did-dle, did-dle!
   Some to cut corn;
While you and I, did-dle, did-dle!
   Keep ourselves warm.