Volume 146 — EVERY AUTHOR'S WIFE.
Reading edition
["What is the first step towards literary production? It is imperative, if you wish to write with any freshness at all, that you should utterly ruin your digestion."—H. G. Wells.]
"What have you dined on, husband mine?" "Chocolate creams and ginger wine." "What did you take as an appetiser?" "Haggis and Sauerkraut à la Kaiser." "Didn't they give you any sweet?" "Hard-boiled eggs and whisky neat." "And your fruit, I trust, was over-ripe?" "Doughnuts five with a pound of tripe." "Have you had nothing at all since then?" "Lobster and stout." "Then here's your pen, "You must do a chapter or two to-night; Have a banana and start to write."