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Books By Joseph Hergesheimer
The Happy End Java Head Gold And Iron The Three Black Pennys Mountain Blood The Lay Anthony
THE HAPPY END
DEDICATION
These stories have but one purpose—to give pleasure; and they have been made into a book at the requests of those I have fortunately pleased. It is, therefore, to such friends of my writing that they are addressed and dedicated. However, this is not an effort to avoid my responsibility: but to whom? Not to critics, not middlemen, nor the Academies of which I am so reprehensibly ignorant; not, certainly, to my neighbor. They brought me, in times of varying difficulty, food; and for that excellent reason I am forced to conclude that, then as now, I am responsible to my grocer.
CONTENTS
THE HAPPY END
LONELY VALLEYS
THE EGYPTIAN CHARIOT
THE FLOWER OF SPAIN
TOL'ABLE DAVID
BREAD
ROSEMARY ROSELLE
THE THRUSH IN THE HEDGE