Abaft the Funnel

Introduction to the collection
by David Page

The stories

Original seriescontents	DoubledayPage numbers	OriginalSeries numbers.	Turnovers	DodgePage numbers
Erastasius of the Whanghoa	3	8	VII 49	1
Her Little Responsibility	13	–	VII 52	12
A Menagerie Aboard	20	1	V 37	20
A Smoke of Manila	25	7	VII 44	26
The Red Lamp	31	–	VII 45	33
The Shadow of his Hand	38	–	VII 48	41
A Little More Beef	46	–	VII 51	49
The History of a Fall	54	–	VIII 53	58
Griffiths the Safe Man	62	–	VII 47	66
It!	72	5	VI 42	77
A Fallen Idol	79	–	I 9	85
New Brooms	84	–	III 31	91
Tiglath Pileser	91	–	IV 35	99
The Likes o’ Us	100	–	–	109
His Brother’s Keeper	111	–	–	121
Sleipner, Late Thurinda	129	–	–	141
A Supplementary Chapter	147	–	–	16
Chautauquaed	164	–	–	180
The Bow Flume Cable-car	185	–	VII 50	204
In Partibus (Verse)	193	–	VIII 56	213
Letters on Leave	197	–	–	218
The Adoration of the Mage	226	–	IX 61	251
A Death in the Camp	232	–	IX 62	258
A Really Good Time	238	–	IX 63	265
On Exhibition	245	–	IX 64	273
The Three Young Men	254	–	IX 57	283
My Great and Only	262	–	IX 58	292
“The Betrayal of Confidences”	274	–	IX 60	305
The New Dispensation—I	281	–	VIII 54	313
The New Dispensation—II	289	–	VIII 55	322
The Last of the Stories	297	–	–	331

There are some minor differences in the punctuation of the titles of the stories as between the Dodge ‘pirate’ edition and the Doubleday Authorised Version of 1909. The titles above are as given in the Authorised Version.

[D.P.]