Copyright, 1907, by The Ridgway Company.
Copyright, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, by P. F. Collier & Son.
Copyright, 1909, by Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published March, 1909.
Second Impression.
Electrotyped and Printed at
THE COLONIAL PRESS:
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
To
MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER
The author acknowledges the courtesy of the publishers of Collier's and Everybody's Magazine in granting him permission to reprint the stories which appeared in those magazines.
CONTENTS
Prologue. [The Little Gods]
Chapter I. [Fagan]
" II. [God's Little Devils]
" III. [The Little Man]
" IV. [A Little Ripple of Patriotism]
" V. [The Superfalous Man]
" VI. [The Valley Of Sunshine and Shadow]
" VII. [What Okimi Learned]
" VIII. [Where There Is No Turning]
" IX. [An Optimist]
" X. [This Fortune]
" XI. [McGennis's Promotion]
[Epilogue]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"[The Deputy Supervisor revealed to them the thrilling difference
between a peach and an apple]" (McGennis's promotion) . . . . Frontispiece