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On Running After One's Hat And Other Whimsies
Author: G. K. Chesterton

On Running After Ones Hat and Other Whimsies BY G. K. CHESTERTON SELECTED BY E. V. KNOX EDITOR OF PUNCH New York Mcmxxxv ROBERT. M. MC BRIDE COMPANY AFTER ONES HAT COPYRIGHT BY DODD, MEAD COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1933 ROBERT M. McBRIDE COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOURTH EDITION Reprinted through the courtesy of Dodd, Mead Company Ne... more »w York CONTENTS PAGE I. ON RUNNING AFTER ONES HAT . I II. ON LYING IN BED . . . 7 III. CHEESE . . . 13. IV. ON PHILOSOPHY VERSUS FICTION . I V. THE MISTAKE OF THE MACHINE . 25 VI. WHAT I FOUND IN MY POCKET . 53 VII. THE PERFECT GAME ... 59 VIII. IN TOPSY-TURVY LAND 6 IX. A TRAGEDY OF TWOPENCE . . 72 X. THE LITTLE BIRDS WHO WONT SING 7 XI. THE RIDDLE OF THE IVY . . 85 XII. THE THREE KINDS OF MEN . . Q2 XIII. THE SURRENDER OF A COCKNEY . 99 XIV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-SEEING 105 XV. HOW I FOUND THE SUPERMAN . 112 XVI. THE WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY . 1 1 8 XVII. THE METHUSELAHITE . . .12 XVIH. ON THE ENGLISHMAN ABROAD . 130 XIX. ON CHANGE . . . .138 XX. A CAB RIDE ACROSS COUNTRY , 143 vii I. ON RUNNING AFTER ONE S HAT I FEEL an almost savage envy on hearing that London has been flooded in my absence, while I am in the mere country. My own Battersea has been, I understand, particularly favoured as a meeting of the waters. Battersea was already, as I need hardly say, the most beautiful of human localities. Now that it has the additional splendour of great sheets of water, there must be something quite incom parable in the landscape or waterscape of my own romantic town. Battersea must be a vision of Venice. The boat that brought the meat from the butchers must have shot along those lanes of rippling silver with the strange smooth ness of the gondola. The greengrocer who brought cabbages to the corner of the Latch mere Road must have leant upon the oar with the unearthly grace of the gondolier. There is nothing so perfectly poetical as an island, and when a district is flooded it becomes an archipelago. Some consider such romantic views of flood or fire slightly lacking in reality. But really this romantic view of such inconveniences is quite as practical as the other. The true optimist G. K. CHESTERTON who sees in such things an opportunity for enjoyment is quite as logical and much more sensible than the ordinary Indignant Rate payer who sees in them an opportunity for grumbling. Real pain, as in the case of being burnt at Smithfield or having a toothache, is a positive thing it can be supported, but scarcely enjoyed. But, after all, our toothaches are the exception, and as for being burnt at Smithfield, it only happens to us at the very longest intervals. And most of the incon veniences that make men swear or women cry are really sentimental or imaginative incon veniencesthings altogether of the mind. For instance, we often hear grown-up people com plaining of having to hang about a railway station and wait for a train. Did you ever hear a small boy complain of having to hang about a railway station, and wait for a train No for to him to be inside a railway station is to be inside a cavern of wonder and a palace of poetical pleasures. Because to him the red light and the green light on th, e signal are like a new sun and a new moon. Because to him when the wooden arm of the signal falls down suddenly, it is as if a great king had thrown down his staff as a signal and started a shrieking tournament of trains. I myself am of little boys habit in this matter. They also serve who ON RUNNING AFTER ONES HAT only stand and wait for the two fifteen. Their meditations may be full of rich and fruitful things. Many of the most purple hours of my life have been passed at Glapham Junction, which is now, I suppose, under water. I have been there in many moods so fixed and mystical that the water might well have come up to my waist before I noticed it particularly. But in the case of all such annoyances, - as I have said, everything depends upon the emotional point of view...

ISBN-13: 9781406742152
ISBN-10: 1406742155
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 164
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Publisher: Maudsley Press
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