TOMMY WIDEAWAKE

TOMMY

I	In which four men make a promise
II	In which two rats meet a sudden death
III	In which a hat floats down stream
IV	In which a young lady is left upon the bank
V	In which April is mistress
VI	In which four men meet a train
VII	In which Madge whistles in a wood
VIII	In which two adjectives are applied to Tommy
IX	In which Tommy climbs a stile
X	In which I receive two warnings, and neglect one
XI	In which Tommy is in peril
XII	In which Tommy makes a resolve
XIII	In which the poet plucks a foxglove
XIV	In which Tommy converses with the Pale Boy
XV	In which some people meet in a wheatfield
XVI	In which Tommy crosses the ploughing
XVII	In which Tommy takes the upland road
XVIII	And last

We were sitting round the fire, in the study—five men, all of usmiddle-aged and sober-minded, four of us bachelors, one a widower.

And it was he who spoke, with an anxious light in his grey eyes, and twothoughtful wrinkles at the bridge of his military nose.

"Tommy," he observed, "Tommy is not an ordinary boy."

We were silent, and I could see the doctor's lips twitching beneath hismoustache, as he gazed hard into the fire, and sucked at his

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