"Why, here's Lady Chavasse's name in it!" I exclaimed, Untying the tape, "for I tried my own hand at it. "You'll find a sort of narrative begun, Johnny," he said, Spectacles on, and carrying some papers tied up with pink There's no romance about it ĭuffham went out of the surgery, and came back with his Not that you'll find anything strange in this True as this, Johnny Ludlow, the world would have witnessed some What I tell of has mostly happened, youĭuffham laughed a little. "But I don't care to put fiction on paper and send it forth as It will be nothing but play-work to you just a bit of Them: it won't take much weaving you'll have it all before yourĮyes. "I'll give you the materials for one," he said "plenty of Holiday, and then weaving them into what you call a story. Iĭon't want to be ransacking memory for materials during any On with another paper or two for us, I hope for we like your When I called to tell him where I was going, "you can be getting "Whilst you are picking up the sea-breezes, Johnny," he said, The history is Duffham's not mine.Īnd there are diaries in it, and all kinds of foreign things. IF I don't relate this quite as usual, and it is found to beĭifferent from what I generally write, it is because I know lessĪbout it than others know. The 48th story, "Fred Temple's Warning," was also omitted.
The first story, "Shaving the Ponies' Tails," was not included in any of these collections, presumably because some elements of the narrative and characterization are atypical in comparison with the rest of the series. Six collections of stories in the series were published in book form. The first story signed by and featuring "Johnny Ludlow" appeared in January 1868, the last in January-June 1891.
"Johnny Ludlow" was the name used by Ellen Wood as the by-line for a series of 90 popular stories and serial novels published in the British monthly Argosy, which she bought in 1867 and edited under her married name, Mrs. This e-book edition: Roy Glashan's Library, 2022Īll content added by RGL is proprietary and protected by First published in The Argosy, July-October 1870
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