[Frontispiece: "No thanks. No tea for me."]

The Simpkins Plot

G. A. Birmingham

T. Nelson & Sons
London and Edinburgh
Paris: 189, rue Saint-Jacques
Leipzig: 35-37 Köningstrasse

TO
R. H.

IN MEMORY OF MANY SUMMER EVENINGS WHEN WE
DRIFTED HOME, UNTROUBLED BY THE
LOVE AFFAIRS OF SIMPKINS.

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