"The Deputy Supervisor revealed to them the thrilling difference
between a peach and an apple."
FRONTISPIECE. See p. 297

The Little Gods

A Masque of the Far East

BY

ROWLAND THOMAS

Illustrated by Charles Sarka

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1909

Copyright, 1907, by The Ridgway Company.
Copyright, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, by P. F. Collier & Son.
Copyright, 1909, by Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published March, 1909.
Second Impression.

Electrotyped and Printed at
THE COLONIAL PRESS:
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

To
MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER

The author acknowledges the courtesy of thepublishers of Collier's and Everybody's Magazinein granting him permission to reprint the storieswhich appeared in those magazines.

CONTENTS

Prologue. The Little Gods

Chapter I.  Fagan
      "     II. God's Little Devils
      "    III. The Little Man
      "    IV. A Little Ripple of Patriotism
      "     V. The Superfalous Man
      "    VI. The Valley Of Sunshine and Shadow
      "   VII. What Okimi Learned
      "  VIII. Where There Is No Turning
      "    IX. An Optimist
      "     X. This Fortune
      "    XI. McGennis's Promotion
Epilogue

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"The Deputy Supervisor revealed tothem the thrilling difference
between a peach and an apple"(McGennis's promotion) . . . . Frontispiece

"All I wanted was a fayah show"

Fagan and Patricia

"Adiós, Señor Don Augusto"

"Fought with—dishes and—knives and forks"

"Dolores gazed down on her littleworld as it went to sleep"

...