A collection of prose and verse written between 1891 and 1934.

Printed in Great Britain.

Introduction (p. 9-16) signed: Maisie Ward.

The coloured lands -- Bob-up-and-down -- The whale's wooing -- The disadvantage of having two heads -- Ballade of kindness to motorists -- The jazz -- Half-hours in Hades -- Dreams -- Stilton and Milton -- In the evening -- Triolet -- The end of the anecdote -- The wild goose chase -- The artistic side -- Ballade of the grotesque -- A song of wild fruit -- Paints in a paint-box -- A fragment -- Les boileaux -- The two taverns -- Tagtug and the tree of knowledge -- Ballade of the tea-pot -- The professor and the cook -- Girl guides -- Wonder and the wooden post -- Ballade of dead men -- The taming of the nightmare -- On household gods and goblins -- The phantom butler -- The joys of science -- The legend of the sword -- Plakkopytrixophylisperambulantiobatrix -- Christmas and the first games -- Ballade of a stoic -- A nightmare -- Homesick at home.