Dedication
TO
SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH
WHO
“GAVE ME THE GOOD WORD”
IN SEASON
Epigraph
“I’VE A FRIEND OVER THE SEA”
Note
My thanks are here due to Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., N. Y., for liberty to include in this volume sundry stories from “Old Man Savarin”; to the American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia, for liberty to include “Dour Davie’s Drive,” and “Petherick’s Peril”; to the University Magazine, Montreal, for liberty to include “Miss Minnely’s Management”; to the Century Company, N. Y., for liberty to include “The Swartz Diamond.”
E. W. THOMSON