A Man's Man

by Ian Hay

  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