Shandygaff
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165
1918
English
- Introductory: Titles And Dedications; The Song Of Shandygaff
- A Question Of Plumage
- Don Marquis
- The Art Of Walking
- Rupert Brooke
- The Man
- The Head Of The Firm
- 17 Heriot Row
- Frank Confessions Of A Publisher's Reader
- William McFee
- Rhubarb
- The Haunting Beauty Of Strychnine
- Ingo
- Housebroken
- The Hilarity Of Hilaire
- A Casual Of The Sea
- The Last Pipe
- Time To Light The Furnace
- My Friend
- A Poet Of Sad Vigils
- Trivia
- Prefaces
- The Skipper
- A Friend Of Fitzgerald
- A Venture In Mysticism
- An Oxford Landlady
- Peacock Pie
- The Literary Pawnshop
- A Morning In Marathon
- The American House Of Lords
- Cotswold Winds
- Clouds
- Unhealthy
- Confessions Of A Smoker
- Hay Febrifuge
- Appendix: Suggestions For Teachers
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but there are those who will abide no other tipple. (John Mistletoe: Dictionary of Deplorable Facts.) Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Here are thirty-five of his humorous essays. - Summary by Book Preface and david wales
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