A Holiday in Bed
And other Sketches.
BY J. M. BARRIE,
AUTHOR OF
The Little Minister. A Window in Thrums.
Auld Licht Idylls, etc.
With a Short Biographical Sketch of the Author
NEW YORK PUBLISHING COMPANY,
NEW YORK.
Copyrighted 1892,
NEW YORK PUBLISHING CO.
PRESS AND BINDERY OF
HISTORICAL PUBLISHING CO.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| James Matthew Barrie, | 15 |
| A Holiday in Bed, | 23 |
| Life in a Country Manse, | 37 |
| Life in a Country Manse—A Wedding in a Smiddy, | 49 |
| A Powerful Drug, | 61 |
| Every Man His own Doctor, | 73 |
| Gretna Green Revisited, | 87 |
| My Favorite Authoress, | 111 |
| The Captain of the School, | 121 |
| Thoughtful Boys Make Thoughtful Men, | 131 |
| It, | 145 |
| To the Influenza, | 153 |
| Four-in-Hand Novelists, | 161 |
| Rules on Carving, | 173 |
| On Running After a Hat, | 179 |
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE.
James Matthew Barrie was born at Kirriemuir, Forfarshire, on May 9,1860. Kirriemuir, as soberly stated by the Encyclopædia Britannica, is"a borough of barony and a market town of Forfarshire, Scotland,beautifully situated on an eminence above the glen through which theGairie flows. It lies about five miles northwest of Forfar, and aboutsixty-two miles north of Edinburgh. The special industry of the town islinen weaving, for which large power-loom factories have recently beenbuilt." Mr. Barrie has made his birthplace famous as Thrums, aft