In a Barber’s Shop ... 1 Do You Enjoy the Telephone? ... 5 Getting and Losing ... 8 A Sick Man’s Thoughts ...11 Buying Second-Hand Books ... 15 Owning a Watch ... 18 My Ideal Husband ... 21 The Death of a Moth ... 24 On Gambling ... 27 In Those Days ... 30 Talking Shop ... 33 How Old Are You? ... 36 Sour Grapeism ... 39 Snow-Bound ... 42 Writing for Others ... 45 Lions and Lionism ... 47 Simply Cannot ... 50 What do Women Desire Most? ... 53 A Kitten ... 56 No Longer a Boy ... 59 Pleasing Everybody ... 62 Practical Jokes ... 65 When the Cat Comes Home ... 69 Some Cases of Misunderstanding ... 72 A Tribute to Mah-Jongg ... 75 Deaths of Old People . 79 A Sort of False Pride ... 82 Co-Education ... 85 Love of New Names ... 88 Doctors ... 91 Money Is Time ... 94 Artificial Speech ... 97 The Importance of Learning Wen-Li ... 100 A Strange Dream ... 103 A “Model” Friendly Letter ... 106 Personal Magnetism . 109 On Mixing English and Chinese Words in Conversation ...111 “Because of ” and “in Spite of ” ...114 A Letter to a Friend Who Is Seeking Employment ...117 Poetry and Poverty ... 120 Hearing Speeches ... 123 The General Talker .. 126 “We Have No Cause to be Proud” ... 129 How to Keep Fit ... 132 Author Worship ... 135 The Sweetness of Dishonesty ... 138 What Is English Composition? ... 141 The Muffin Man ... 144 A Dying Girl and Her Lover ... 147 A Lover’s Questions to the Moon ... 151 To Stand and Stare ... 155 Three Sonnets to Sleep ... 158 Advice to a Lover ... 161 “A Favourite Has No Friend!” ... 164 Eating and Reading ...167 Heart and Body ... 170 Present in Absence ... 172 The Beauty of the Body ... 175 To Proud Girls ... 178 “Whom the Gods Love Die Young” ... 181 What do You Want? ... 184 On Winter Nights ... 188
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