The Nineteenth Hat
Vera's First Christmas Adventure
The Murder of the Mandarin
Vera's Second Christmas Adventure
The Burglary
News of the Engagement
Beginning the New Year
From One Generation to Another
The Death of Simon Fuge
In a New Bottle 

THE LION'S SHARE 

I 

In the Five Towns the following history is related by those who
know it as something side-splittingly funny--as one of the best
jokes that ever occurred in a district devoted to jokes.  And I,
too, have hitherto regarded it as such.  But upon my soul, now that
I come to write it down, it strikes me as being, after all, a