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Title: The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893
An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

Release Date: July 24, 2007 [EBook #22130]

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THE IDLER MAGAZINE.
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.

April 1893.

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CONTENTS.

No. 1.--THE QUEEN'S ANIMALS.
BY G. B. BURGIN AND E. M. JESSOP.

PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER MET.
BY SCOTT RANKIN.

THE RECLAMATION OF JOE HOLLENDS.
BY ROBERT BARR.

MY FIRST BOOK.
DAWN.
BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.

TOLD BY THE COLONEL.
XII.
THE CAT'S REVENGE.
BY W. L. ALDEN.

"LIONS IN THEIR DENS."
J. L. TOOLE.
BY RAYMOND BLATHWAYT.

NOVEL NOTES.
BY JEROME K. JEROME.

THE STORY OF AN HOUR.
BY HILDA NEWMAN.

RUM PUNCH AT PODBURY'S.
BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS.

THE IDLERS CLUB.
"AWKWARD PREDICAMENTS."

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[Illustration: CHESTNUT CHARGER OF THE LATE EMPEROR FREDERIC OF GERMANY,
AND "NINETTE," THE PRINCESS VICTORIA'S LITTLE WHITE DONKEY.]

[Illustration: ROYAL PETS.]

No. 1.--THE QUEEN'S ANIMALS.

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BY G. B. BURGIN AND E. M. JESSOP.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. M. JESSOP.

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The February wind blows keenly, as we lean from the window of our railway
carriage, and watch dismantled house-boats, drawn up on the river bank
just outside Windsor, being prepared for the forthcoming season. Some Eton
boys--it is evidently a holiday--stand looking on with lively interest.
Several people get out of the train, walk into the quaint old-fashioned
street, and disappear. We follow them, charter a hansom, and are driven
along a picturesque road in the direction of the late Prince Consort's
Shaw Farm. This road is almost deserte