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LITTLE Mr. BOUNCER


AND


HIS FRIEND VERDANT GREEN.



CHAPTER I.


LITTLE MR. BOUNCER MAKES A CALL ON HIS FRIEND VERDANT GREEN.


HULLO, Giglamps!" It was the unmistakable cheery voice of little Mr. Bouncer. He had crossed from his own rooms in the grand old College of Brazenface, Oxford, and had stopped on a certain landing, before a door over which was painted the monosyllable "Green." His battered College cap was on his head, but, as no undergraduate's gown was upon his shoulders, it was to be presumed that the little gentleman had not come from lectures, or returned from a stroll through the streets of Oxford, or from any other place where the wearing of