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    A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    J.M. Barrie

    J. M. Barrie was born in 1860. Fascinated by stories of his mother's life, he was determined to write and worked on the Nottingham Journal after graduating from Edinburgh University. In 1885 he successfully sold the Auld Licht Idylls, which were based on his mother's tales. By the time Peter Pan opened on the London stage in 1904, Barrie had written more than thirty novels and plays, such as Quality Street and The Admirable Crichton. He was created a baronet in 1913, awarded the Order of Merit in 1922 and died in 1937.

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      A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches by J. M. Barrie - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - J.M. Barrie

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      J. M. BARRIE

      VOLUME 13 OF 54

      A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches’

      J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition (in 54 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 740 7

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

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      J. M. Barrie: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 13 of the Delphi Classics edition of J. M. Barrie in 54 Parts. It features the unabridged text of A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of J. M. Barrie, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of J. M. Barrie or the Complete Works of J. M. Barrie in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      J. M. BARRIE

      IN 54 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Auld Licht Idylls

      2, Better Dead

      3, When a Man’s Single

      4, A Window in Thrums

      5, The Little Minister

      6, Sentimental Tommy

      7, Tommy and Grizel

      8, The Little White Bird

      9, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

      10, Peter and Wendy

      The Novellas

      11, A Tillyloss Scandal

      12, Farewell Miss Julie Logan

      The Short Story Collections

      13, A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

      14, Two of Them

      15, Echoes of the War

      The Plays

      16, Ibsen’s Ghost

      17, Walker, London

      18, Jane Annie

      19, The Professor’s Love Story

      20, The Little Minister

      21, The Wedding Guest

      22, Quality Street

      23, The Admirable Crichton

      24, Little Mary

      25, Peter Pan – the Original Play

      26, Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

      27, What Every Woman Knows

      28, Old Friends

      29, When Wendy Grew Up – an Afterthought

      30, Pantaloon

      31, The Twelve-Pound Look

      32, Rosalind

      33, The Will

      34, Half an Hour

      35, The New Word

      36, A Kiss for Cinderella

      37, Seven Women

      38, Der Tag

      39, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

      40, Dear Brutus

      41, A Well-Remembered Voice

      42, Mary Rose

      43, Shall We Join the Ladies?

      44, Barbara’s Wedding

      45, The Boy David

      The Non-Fiction

      46, An Edinburgh Eleven

      47, My Lady Nicotine

      48, The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island

      49, Charles Frohman: A Tribute

      50, Neither Dorking nor the Abbey

      51, M’connachie and J. M. B.

      52, Preface to the Young Visiters

      The Memoirs

      53, Margaret Ogilvy

      54, The Greenwood Hat

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      A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches

      CONTENTS

      A HOLIDAY IN BED.

      LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE.

      LIFE IN A COUNTRY MANSE. A WEDDING IN A SMIDDY.

      A POWERFUL DRUG. (NO HOUSEHOLD SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT.)

      EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.

      GRETNA GREEN REVISITED.

      MY FAVORITE AUTHORESS.

      THE CAPTAIN OF THE SCHOOL.

      THOUGHTFUL BOYS MAKE THOUGHTFUL MEN.

      IT.

      TO THE INFLUENZA.

      FOUR-IN-HAND NOVELISTS.

      RULES FOR CARVING.

      ON RUNNING AFTER A HAT.

      A HOLIDAY IN BED.

      Now is the time for a real holiday. Take it in bed, if you are wise.

      People have tried a holiday in bed before now, and found it a failure, but that was because they were ignorant of the rules. They went to bed with the open intention of staying there, say, three days, and found to their surprise that each morning they wanted to get up. This was a novel experience to them, they flung about restlessly, and probably shortened their holiday. The proper thing is to take your holiday in bed with a vague intention of getting up in another quarter of an hour. The real pleasure of lying in bed after you are awake is largely due to the feeling that you ought to get up. To take another quarter of an hour then becomes a luxury. You are, in short, in the position of the man who dined on larks. Had he seen the hundreds that were ready for him, all set out on one monster dish, they would have turned his stomach; but getting them two at a time, he went on eating till all the larks were exhausted. His feeling of uncertainty as to whether these might not be his last two larks is your feeling that, perhaps, you will have to get up in a quarter of an hour. Deceive yourself in this way, and your holiday in bed will pass only too quickly.

      Sympathy is what all the world is craving for, and sympathy is what the ordinary holiday-maker never gets. How can we be expected to sympathize with you when we know you are off to Perthshire to fish? No; we say we wish we were you, and forget that your holiday is sure to be a hollow mockery; that your child will jam her finger in the railway carriage, and scream to the end of the journey; that you will lose your luggage; that the guard will notice your dog beneath the seat, and insist on its being paid for; that you will be caught in a Scotch mist on the top of a mountain, and be put on gruel for a fortnight; that your wife will fret herself into a fever about the way the servant, who has been left at home, is carrying on with her cousins, the milkman and the policeman; and that you will be had up for trespassing. Yet, when you tell us you are off to-morrow, we have never the sympathy to say, Poor fellow, I hope you’ll pull through somehow. If it is an exhibition you go to gape at, we never picture you dragging your weary legs from one department to another, and wondering why your back is so sore. Should it be the seaside, we talk heartlessly to you about the briny, though we must know, if we would stop to think, that if there is one holiday more miserable than all the others, it is that spent at the seaside, when you wander the weary beach and fling pebbles at the sea, and wonder how long it will be till dinner time. Were we to come down to see you, we would probably find you, not on the beach, but moving slowly through the village, looking in at the one milliner’s window, or laboriously reading what the one grocer’s labels say on the subject of pale ale, compressed beef, or vinegar. There was never an object that called aloud for sympathy more than you do, but you get not a jot of it. You should take the first train home and go to bed for three days.

      To enjoy your holiday in bed to the full, you should let it be vaguely understood that there is something amiss with you. Don’t go into details, for they are not necessary; and, besides, you want to be dreamy

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