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=APES AND ANGELS=
=BY=
=RICHARD EDWARD CONNELL=
=_Short Story Index Reprint Series_=
=BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS=
=FREEPORT, NEW YORK=
First Published 1924
Reprinted 1970
_DEDICATION_
_To Apes playing Angels, and remembering their Halos while forgetting
their Tails—_
_To the Earnest and Purposeful Men and Women, of the world, who have
made it what it is today—_
_To Kings, Generals, Ecclesiastics, Statesmen—_
_To Dignitaries generally, not forgetting Wearers of Regalia and Phi
Beta Kappa keys—_
_To All who, taking life heavily and solemnly, thank God they have a
sense of Humor—_
_To Leaders of Movements, Champions of Causes and all Minor Messiahs—_
_To Those who have found Absolute Truth and know no Doubt—_
_To Prudent, Thrifty Souls who save up their pleasure in this world so
they may enjoy it, with interest, in the next—_
_To Men who feel refreshed in the presence of Thoroughbred Horses—_
_To Patronizers of Humor—_
_To Artists who think an Important Manner makes Matter Important—_
_To New-laid Æsthetes who bamboozle other New-laid Æsthetes by saying
Nothing in a New Way—_
_To Revilers of Public Taste who forget that clarity begins at home—_
_To Critics whose most lethal epithet is “light,” who deem tears more
civilized than laughter, and the causing of pain a higher art than the
giving of pleasure—_
_To Weepers in Playtime and Dieters at the Banquet of Life—_
_To all Mental Masochists—_
_To the Serious Minded—_
_This book of light tragedies is dedicated in warm gratitude for the joy
they have given me._
_RICHARD CONNELL_
_Green’s Farms, Conn._
_February 11, 1924._
CONTENTS
PAGE
A Friend of Napoleon. . . . . . . 1
A Reputation. . . . . . . . . . 35
Son of a Sloganeer. . . . . . . . 63
The Wronging of Edwin Dell. . . . . 98
The Unfamiliar. . . . . . . . . 138
A House in the Country. . . . . . 163
Shoes. . . . . . . . . . . . 184
The Prince Has the Mumps. . . . . . 199
The Battle of Washington Square. . . 224
The Last of the Flatfeet. . . . . . 256
The Man Who Could Imitate a Bee. . . 291