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Title: The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893
An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr

Author: Various

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THE IDLER MAGAZINE.
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.

EDITED BY JEROME K. JEROME & ROBERT BARR.

VOL. III. FEBRUARY TO JULY, 1893.

XIII. FEB. 1893.

LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, 214, PICCADILLY. 1893.

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CONTENTS.

CHEATING THE GALLOWS.
BY I. ZANGWILL.

MY FIRST NOVEL.--THE TRAIL OF THE SERPENT.
BY MISS M. E. BRADDON.

NOVEL NOTES.
BY JEROME K. JEROME.

THE SKATER.
BY WILLIAM CANTON.

MY SERVANT ANDREAS.
BY ARCHIBALD FORBES.

TOLD BY THE COLONEL.--
X. A MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
BY W. L. ALDEN.

"LIONS IN THEIR DENS."--
II. GEORGE GROSSMITH AND THE HUMOUR OF HIM.
BY RAYMOND BLATHWAYT.

A BLIND BEGGARMAN.
BY FRANK MATHEW.

CHURCH AND STAGE.--A REVIEW OF HENRY IRVING.
BY THE REV. DR. JOSEPH PARKER.

THAT BEAST BEAUTY.
BY KIRBY HARE.

PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER MET.--MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.
BY SCOTT RANKIN.

THE IDLERS CLUB
Is Love a Practical Reality or a Pleasing Fiction?

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CHEATING THE GALLOWS.

BY I. ZANGWILL.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEO. HUTCHINSON.

CHAPTER I.

CURIOUS COUPLE.

[Illustration: THE CORPSE WASHED UP BY THE RIVER.]

They say that a union of opposites makes the happiest marriage, and
perhaps it is on the same principle that men who chum are always so
oddly assorted. You shall find a man of letters sharing diggings with an
auctioneer, and a medical student pigging with a stockbroker's clerk.
Perhaps each thus escapes the temptation to talk "shop" in his hours of
leisure, while he supplements his own experiences of life by his
companion's.

[Illustration: TOM PETERS.]
[Illustration: EVERARD G. ROXDAL.]

There coul