THE
BUSINESS OF PLEASURE

BY
EDMUND YATES
AUTHOR OF "BLACK SHEEP"

LONDON

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK : 416 BROOME STREET
1879

TO
WILLIAM HENRY WILLS
AT WHOSE SUGGESTION
MOST OF THE ESSAYS HEREIN CONTAINED
WERE WRITTEN
This Volume is Enscribed
WITH THE AUTHOR'S SINCEREST REGARD.

Kensington, May 1865

Chapter 1 - Introductory
Chapter 2 - Cremorne Gardens
Chapter 3 - The Greenwich Dinner
Chapter 4 - Riding London : Of Omnibuses
Chapter 5 - Riding London : Of Cabs, Jobs and Black Jobs
Chapter 6 - Riding London : Of the Parcels-Delivery Company and "Pickford's"
Chapter 7 - My Excursion Agent
Chapter 8 - Holding up the Mirror
Chapter 9 - Tom Moody and Co.
Chapter 10 - My Newspaper
Chapter 11 - Gunning
Chapter 12 - The Grimgribber Rifle Corps : We Commence the "Movement"
Chapter 13 - More of the Grimgribber Rifle Corps - Our New Captain
Chapter 14 - Grimgribber Position-Drill
Chapter 15 - Warlike Wimbledon
Chapter 16 - Kensal Green
Chapter 17 - A Trial of Jewry
Chapter 18 - Carefully Moved in Town and Country
Chapter 19 - An Easter Revival
Chapter 20 - The Millers and Their Men
Chapter 21 - Case for the Prosecution
Chapter 22 - Case for the Prisoner
Chapter 23 - Pincher Astray
Chapter 24 - Boys
Chapter 25 - In and On an Omnibus
Chapter 26 - The Dirty Derby
Chapter 27 - Innocents' Day
Chapter 28 - Sawdust and Lamps
Chapter 29 - Lectured in Basinghall Street
Chapter 30 - Haunted Hoxton
Chapter 31 - Very hard upon my Aunt
Chapter 32 - Hotspur Street, W.
Chapter 33 - Gazetting Extraordinary
Chapter 34 - On the Public Service
Chapter 35 - Assault and Battery
Chapter 36 - Silent Highwaymen