PREFATORY NOTE
Reading edition
Warned by previous experience, I do not propose to make any apology for the publication of these stories in book form, but I hope my generous critics will at least pardon me for expressing my gratitude for the way in which they have received all my previous efforts. Naturally, I sincerely hope they will be equally kind in the present instance.
F. T. Bullen.
New Bedford, Mass., September, 1901.