o holiday for a year. He, too, would like a little
change of air; but what's the matter with father? He's all right.

In the most humble stations of life we have all of us known that man who
gets up at five o'clock in the morning, lights the fire to cook a bit of
breakfast for himself, gets his tools and starts to his daily labour,
wiping off the dew of the dawn on his boots while many a mother is
sleeping. With his hard-earned wages he pays the butcher, the grocer,
the milkman and the baker. He stands off the wolf and the bailiff and
pays the rent.

What's the matter with father? How blessed that home would be without
him!

I know there are loafers who refuse the work that would enable them to
support their wives and children. There are also good steady workmen who
at home find nothing awaiting them except the sight of a drunken woman,
who not only has not prepared a meal for him, but has spent his
hard-earned money, and not uncommonly even pawned the baby's shoes to
get brandy or gin with. 'What's home without a mother?' 'God bless our
mother!'

Do give father a chance, if you please.

THE END

BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD

MAX O'RELL'S WORKS

JOHN BULL AND HIS ISLAND.
JOHN BULL'S WOMANKIND.
THE DEAR NEIGHBOURS!
FRIEND MACDONALD.
DRAT THE BOYS!
JOHN BULL, JUNIOR.
JACQUES BONHOMME.
JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT.
A FRENCHMAN IN AMERICA.
JOHN BULL AND CO.
PHARISEES AND CROCODILES.
FRENCH ORATORY.
WOMAN AND ARTIST.
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS WOMAN.
BETWEEN OURSELVES.
RAMBLES IN WOMANLAND.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
ON
RAMBLES IN WOMANLAND

'Max O'Rell has in this volume given us another entertaining and
delightful dissertation upon woman and her kind. What Max O'Rell
does not know about the sex to which he has not the honour to
belong is hardly worth knowing.'--_St. James's Gazette._

'It is too late in the day to dwell upon the features of style
which render the work of Max O'Rell such easy and agreeable
reading, and it is unnecessary to illustrate his pretty gift of
phrase-making. He has gained his own place among popular
authors, and offers no sign of vacating it.'--_Pall Mall
Gazette._

'We hardly know whether to recommend the book to our readers or
not. They will not put it down, once begun--that is
certain.'--_Spectator._

'Max O'Rell, in his