THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1915 ***

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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1915

AND THE

YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY

EDITED BY EDWARD J. O'BRIEN

BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Boston Transcript.

Copyright, 1915, by Charles Scribner's Sons, Harper and Brothers, The Century Company, The Masses Publishing Company, P.F. Collier & Son, Incorporated, Margaret C. Anderson, Mitchell Kennerley, The Ridgway Company, Illustrated Sunday Magazine, John T. Frederick, Every Week Corporation, Boston Daily Advertiser, The Bellman Company, The Outlook Company, and The Curtis Publishing Company.

Copyright, 1916, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, Donn Byrne, Will Levington Comfort, William Addison Dwiggins, James Francis Dwyer, Ben Hecht, Arthur Johnson, Virgil Jordan, Harris Merton Lyon, Walter J. Muilenburg, Newbold Noyes, Seumas O'Brien, Katharine Metcalf Roof, Benjamin Rosenblatt, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mary Synon, and Fannie Hurst.

Copyright, 1916, by Small, Maynard and Company, Incorporated.

Second Printing, June, 1916 Third Printing, October, 1916 Fourth Printing, December, 1916 Fifth Printing, May, 1917

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

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TO BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT

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BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, publishers, and copyright holders:

To Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt for permission to reprint "The Water-Hole," first published in _Scribner's Magazine_; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Donn Byrne for permission to reprint "The Wake," first published in _Harper's Magazine_; to The Masses Publishing Company and Mr. Will Levington Comfort for permission to reprint "Chautonville," first published in _The Masses_; to Mr. William Addison Dwiggins for permission to reprint "La Dernière Mobilisation;" to P.F. Collier & Son, Incorporated, Galbraith Welch, and Mr. James Francis Dwyer for permission to reprint "The Citizen," first published in _Collier's Weekly_; to Mitchell Kennerley and Mrs. Frances Gregg Wilkinson for permission to reprint "Whose Dog--?" first published in _The Forum_; to Miss Margaret C. Anderson and Mr. Ben Hecht for permission to reprint "Life," first published in _The Little Review_; to the Century Company and Mr. Arthur Johnson for permission to reprint "Mr. Eberdeen's House," first published in _The Century Magazine_; to the Ridgway Company and Mr. Virgil Jordan for permission to include "Vengeance is Mine!" first published in _Everybody's Magazine_; to _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_ and Mr. Harris Merton Lyon for permission to reprint "The Weaver Who Clad the Summer," first published in _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_; to Mr. John T. Frederick and Mr. Walter J. Muilenburg for permission to reprint "Heart of Youth," first published in _The Midland_; to the Every Week Corporation and Mr. Newbold Noyes for permission to reprint "The End of the Path," first published in _Every Week_ and _The Associated Sunday Magazine_; to _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_ and Mr. Seumas O'Brien for permission to reprint "The Whale and the Grass-Hopper," first published in _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_; to _The Boston Daily Advertiser_, _The Boston Evening Record_, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association for permission to reprint "In Berlin," by Mary Boyle O'Reilly, first published in _The Boston Daily Advertiser_; to the Century Company and Miss Katharine Metcalf Roof for permission to reprint "The Waiting Years," first published in _The Century Magazine_; to The Bellman Company and Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to reprint "Zelig," first published in _The Bellman_; to The Outlook Company and Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars for permission to include "The Survivors," first published in _The Outlook_; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for permission to reprint "The Yellow Cat," first published in _Harper's Magazine_; to Charles Scribner's Sons and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint "The Bounty Jumper," first published in _Scribner's Magazine_; and to The Curtis Publishing Company and Miss Fannie Hurst for permission to reprint "T.B.," first published in _The Saturday Evening Post_.

Acknowledgments are specially due to _The Boston Evening Transcript_ for permission to reprint