Acknowledgment



"THE Background" originally appeared in the "Leinsters' Magazine"; "The Stampeding of Lady Bastable" in the "Daily Mail"; "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger," "The Chaplet," "The Peace Offering," "Filboid Studge" and "Ministers of Grace" (in an abbreviated form) in the "Bystander"; and the remainder of the stories (with the exception of "The Music on the Hill," "The Story of St. Vespaluus," "The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope," "The Remoulding of Groby Lington," and "The Way to the Dairy," which have never previously been published) in the "Westminster Gazette." To the Editors of these papers I am indebted for courteous permission to reprint them.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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