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Updated: June 23, 2025
She clasped her hands joyously. "Oh, how wonderful!" she exclaimed "I've always wanted Miss Shirley to meet Mr. Bryce." Again Bryce was moved to protest, but Buck Ogilvy reached around the half-opened door and kicked him in the shins. "Don't crab my game, you miserable snarley-yow. Detract one speck from that girl's pleasure, and you'll never see that temporary franchise," he threatened.
He did not always, however, play the professional author so offensively, and we hear of his taking part in private theatricals and dances, preparing a Christmas tree for the children, and cleverly packing his friends' portmanteaux. Meanwhile, he was writing The Pirate and Three Cutters, for which he received £750, as well as Snarley-yow and the Pacha of many Tales.
Mrs Lean states that her father received £1100 each for Peter Simple, Jacob Faithful, Japhet, and The Pacha of many Tales; £1200 for Midshipman Easy, £1300 for Snarley-yow, and £1600 for the Diary in America.
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