7

On Thin Ice

By Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

Charles Villiers Stanford found it necessary to play dumb on a visit to snowy Leipzig.

8

Leg Glance

By Samuel Rogers

A sportsman and an officer lays a wager that he can make a trigger-happy Irishman go barefoot in public.

9

Half-Seas-Over

By Samuel Rogers

A doctor is wondering how to apologise for being drunk on the job, when he receives a letter from his patient.

10

Lion Hunting in Heidelberg

By Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

Composer Johannes Brahms disliked the adulation sometimes heaped on him by fans, and found quite imaginative ways to avoid it.

11

Never say ‘What, never?’ again

By Charles Willeby

That infernal nonsense ‘Pinafore’ took America by storm.

12

All that Glisters is not Gold

By Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew, co-founder of ‘Punch’, tells two anecdotes about the Victorian cabbie.