The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice, by E. V. Lucas This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice Author: E. V. Lucas Release Date: November 10, 2009 [EBook #30445] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FLAMP *** Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice By E. V. LUCAS LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS 1900 First printed October 1897 Reprinted December 1897 " August 1899 " December 1900 CONTENTS The Flamp I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI The Ameliorator I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X The Schoolboy's Apprentice The Dumpy Books for Children. The Flamp TO MOLLY AND HILDA. That sunny afternoon in May, How stealthily we crept away, We three—(Good things are done in threes: That is, good things in threes are done When you make two and I make one.)— To hatch our small conspiracies! Between the blossomy apple-trees (You recollect?) we sped, and then Safe in the green heart of the wood We breathed again.