All rights reserved
Published October, 1905
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
CARRIE SELECMAN LITSEY
I INSCRIBE THESE STORIES
E. C. L.
The author wishes to make public acknowledgment to Leslie’s Monthly Magazine for permission to use in this volume “The Race of the Swift,” “The King of the Northern Slope,” and “The Ghost Coon.” Thanks are also due Field and Stream for their courtesy in allowing the use of “The Fight on the Tree-Bridge.” The other stories presented here have never appeared in print before.