E-text prepared by Lionel Sear
The stories in this volume made their first appearance in England asfollows: "The Roll-Call of the Reef" in The Idler; "The LooeDie-hards" in The Illustrated London News, where it was entitled "The Power o' Music"; "Jetsom" and "The Bishop of Eucalyptus" in The Pall Mall Magazine"; "Visitors at the Gunnel Rock" in The Strand Magazine; "Flowing Source" in The Woman at Home; and the rest, with one exception, in the friendly pages of The Speaker.
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