ROUNDABOUT PAPERS

By William Makepeace Thackeray

CONTENTS

ROUNDABOUT PAPERS.

ON A LAZY IDLE BOY.

ON TWO CHILDREN IN BLACK.

ON RIBBONS.

ON SOME LATE GREAT VICTORIES.

THORNS IN THE CUSHION.

ON SCREENS IN DINING-ROOMS.

TUNBRIDGE TOYS.

DE JUVENTUTE.

ON A JOKE I ONCE HEARD FROM THE LATE THOMAS HOOD.

ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

ON A CHALK-MARK ON THE DOOR

ON BEING FOUND OUT.

ON A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.

SMALL-BEER CHRONICLE.

OGRES.

ON TWO ROUNDABOUT PAPERS WHICH I INTENDED TO WRITE.

A MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE.

ON LETTS'S DIARY.

NOTES OF A WEEK'S HOLIDAY.

NIL NISI BONUM.

ON HALF A LOAF.

THE NOTCH ON THE AXE.—A STORY A LA MODE.

DE FINIBUS.

ON A PEAL OF BELLS.

ON A PEAR-TREE.

DESSEIN'S.

ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI.

AUTOUR DE MON CHAPEAU.

ON ALEXANDRINES.

ON A MEDAL OF GEORGE THE FOURTH.

"STRANGE TO SAY, ON CLUB PAPER."

THE LAST SKETCH.

ROUNDABOUT PAPERS.

ON A LAZY IDLE BOY.

I had occasion to pass a week in the autumn in the little old town of Coire or Chur, in the Grisons, where lies buried that very ancient British king, saint, and martyr, Lucius,* who founded the Church of St. Peter, on Cornhill. Few people note the church now-a-days, and fewer ever heard of the saint. In the cathedral at Chur, his statue appears surrounded by other sainted persons of his family. With tight red breeches, a Roman habit, a curly brown beard, and a neat little gilt crown and sceptre, he stands, a very comely and cheerful image: and, from what I may call his peculiar position with regard to Cornhill, I beheld this figure of St. Lucius with more interest than I should have bestowed upon personages who, hierarchically, are, I dare say, his superiors.