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Title: Eliza

Author: Barry Pain

Illustrator: Wallace Goldsmith

Release Date: December 9, 2007 [EBook #23783]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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ELIZA

_Says_ ROBERT BARR _in_ THE IDLER:--

"... and as for Barry Pain's 'Eliza' I question if anything more
d e l i c i o u s l y humourous, and of a humour so restrained, has
been written since the time of Lamb."

[Illustration: "_It was true I ran into the horse._"
(_See page_ 24.)]

ELIZA

By

BARRY PAIN

ILLUSTRATED BY

WALLACE GOLDSMITH

BOSTON
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1904_
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

_COLONIAL PRESS_

_Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A._

CONTENTS

PAGE
ELIZA'S HUSBAND 3
THE CARDS 13
ELIZA'S MOTHER 23
MISS SAKERS 33
THE ORCHESTROME 41
THE TONIC PORT 49
THE GENTLEMAN OF TITLE 59
THE HAT 67
MY FORTUNE 73
SHAKESPEARE 81
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM 89
THE DAY OFF 97
THE MUSHROOM 107
THE PLEASANT SURPRISE 115
THE MOPWORTHS 123