PREFACE
Reading edition
These stories were not originally written with a view to their ultimate reappearance in book form, and most of them were written some while ago. “Tubby’s Dhow” was first published in Herbert Strang’s Annual for Boys; “The Stranding of the Hoi-Hau,” “The Salvage of the Cashmere” and “The Luck of the Tavy,” in the Scout; “The Gunner’s Luck,” in the Weekly Telegraph; “The Inner Patrol,” in the Royal Magazine; “Horatio Nelson Chivers” and “The Escape of the Speedwell,” in the British Boys’ Annual (Messrs. Cassell & Co., Ltd.), and “The Gun-runners,” in the St. George’s Magazine. I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to the respective Editors who have so kindly allowed me to republish my work in book form.
It is needless to remark that all my characters are fictitious.
“Taffrail.”
1917.