tion>G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664173140
Table of Contents
VII. The Advantages of Having One Leg
IX. In the Place de La Bastille
XXV. A Cab Ride Across Country
XXVII. Some Policemen and a Moral
XXX. The Little Birds Who Won't Sing
XXXII. The Travellers in State
XXXIII. The Prehistoric Railway Station
XXXVI. A Somewhat Improbable Story
XXXVIII. The Ballade of a Strange Town
XXXIX. The Mystery of a Pageant
PREFACE
These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amount to no more than a sort of sporadic diary—a diary recording one day in twenty which happened to stick in the fancy—the only kind of diary the author has ever been able to keep. Even that diary he could only keep by keeping it in public, for bread and cheese. But trivial as are the topics they are not utterly without a connecting thread of motive. As the reader's eye strays, with hearty relief, from these pages, it probably alights on something, a bed-post or a lamp-post, a window blind or a wall. It is a thousand to one that the reader is looking
