A MAN'S MAN
by
IAN HAY
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=By Ian Hay=
A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece. A MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece. THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK
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A MAN'S MAN
"O, HUGHIE, DID YOU?" (p. 376)]
A MAN'S MAN
by
IAN HAY
Author of "The Right Stuff"
With Frontispiece by James Montgomery Flagg
Boston and New YorkHoughton Mifflin CompanyThe Riverside Press Cambridge
Copyright, 1909, by William Blackwood and SonsCopyright, 1910, by Houghton Mifflin Company
All Rights Reserved
Published September 1910
TO T. B.
_Partner_ (_after several collisions_). I should think you were more athome in a boat than a ballroom, Mr. Rudderford!
_Little Bobbie Rudderford_ (_the famous Oxbridge coxswain_). Yes; and byJove, I'd sooner steer eight men than one woman, any day!--_Punch._
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE
I. NAVAL MANOEUVRES 3
II. INTRODUCES THE HEROINE OF THIS NARRATIVE 22
III. JIMMY MARRABLE 28
IV. AN UNDERSTUDY 49
V. THE JOY OF BATTLE 61
BOOK TWO
_FORTITER IN RE_
VI. KNIGHT-ERRANTRY _A LA MODE_ 81
VII. THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE 112
VIII. A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE 130
IX. _LITERA SCRIPTA MANET_ 146
X. THE END OF AN ODYSSEY 157
BOOK THREE
_SUAVITER IN MODO_
XI. SEALED ORDERS 179
XII. A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE 195
XIII. _VARIUM ET MUTABILE_ 223
XIV. BUSINESS ONLY 247
BOOK FOUR
THE UNJUST STEWARD
XV. DEPUTATIONS--WITH A DIFFERENCE 263
XVI. IN WHICH CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG, AND JOAN MISSES HER CUE 292
XVII. IN WHICH CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, AND HUGHIE MISSES HIS TRAIN 320
XVIII. _EX MACHINA_ 339
XIX. IN WHICH LOVE FLIES OUT OF THE WINDOW 354
XX. SINFUL WASTE OF A PENNY STAMP 372
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE