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Title: The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893
An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

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Language: English

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THE IDLER MAGAZINE.

AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.

MAY 1893

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CONTENTS

THE IDLER.
AN INGENUE OF THE SIERRAS.
BY BRETT HART.

THE MODERN BABYLON.
BY CYNICUS.

MY FIRST BOOKS.
"UNDERTONES" AND "IDYLLS AND LEGENDS OF
INVERBURN."

BALDER'S BALL.
BY P. VON SCHOeNTHAN.

LIONS IN THEIR DENS.
V.--THE LORD LIEUTENANT AT DUBLIN CASTLE.
BY RAYMOND BLATHWAYT.

THE FEAR OF IT.
BY ROBERT BARR.

MEMOIRS OF A FEMALE NILIHILIST.
BY SOPHIE WASSILIEFF.

MEMOIRS OF A FEMALE NILIHILIST.
BY SOPHIE WASSILIEFF.

PEOPLE I HAVE NEVER MET.
BY SCOTT RANKIN.

MY SERVANT JOHN.
BY ARCHIBALD FORBES.

THE IDLER'S CLUB.
THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT.

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[Illustration: "THE SIMPLE QUESTION I'VE GOT TO ASK YE IS _this_--DID
YOU SIGNAL TO ANYBODY FROM THE COACH WHEN WE PASSED GALLOPER'S?"]

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THE IDLER.

_AN INGENUE OF THE SIERRAS._

BY BRET HARTE.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. S. BOYD.

I.

We all held our breath as the coach rushed through the semi-darkness of
Galloper's Ridge. The vehicle itself was only a huge lumbering shadow;
its side-lights were carefully extinguished, and Yuba Bill had just
politely removed from the lips of an outside passenger even the cigar
with which he had been ostentatiously exhibiting his coolness. For it
had been rumoured that the Ramon Martinez gang of "road agents" were
"laying" for us on the second grade, and would time the passage of our
lights across Galloper's in order to intercept us in the "brush" beyond.
If