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Title: Cumner & South Sea Folk, Complete

Author: Gilbert Parker

Posting Date: March 12, 2009
Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #6201]

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Produced by David Widger

CUMNER'S SON AND OTHER SOUTH SEA FOLK

by Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS

Volume 1.
CUMNER'S SON

Volume 2.
THE HIGH COURT OF BUDGERY-GAR
AN EPIC IN YELLOW
DIBBS, R.N.
A LITTLE MASQUERADE
DERELICT
OLD ROSES
MY WIFE'S LOVERS
THE STRANGERS' HUT

Volume 3.
THE PLANTER'S WIFE
BARBARA GOLDING
THE LONE CORVETTE

Volume 4.
A SABLE SPARTAN
A VULGAR FRACTION
HOW PANGO WANGO WAS ANNEXED
AN AMIABLE REVENGE
THE BLIND BEGGAR AND THE LITTLE RED PEG
A FRIEND OF THE COMMUNE

Volume 5.
A PAGAN OF THE SOUTH

INTRODUCTION

In a Foreword to Donovan Pasha, published in 1902, I used the following
words:

"It is now twelve years since I began giving to the public tales of life
in lands well known to me. The first of them were drawn from Australia
and the islands of the southern Pacific, where I had lived and roamed in
the middle and late eighties.... Those tales of the Far South were given
out with some prodigality. They did not appear in book form, however;
for at the time I was sending out these antipodean sketches I was also
writing--far from the scenes where they were laid--a series of Canadian
tales, many of which appeared in the 'Independent' of New York, in
the 'National Observer', edited by Mr. Henley, and in the 'Illustrated
London News'. On the suggestion of my friend Mr. Henley, the Canadian
tales, Pierre and His People, were published first; with the result that
the stories of the southern hemisphere were withheld from publication,
though they have been privately printed and duly copyrighted. Some day
I may send them forth, but meanwhile I am content to keep them in my
care."

These stories made the collection published eventually under the title
of Cumner's Son, in 1910. They were thus kept