[1] This appears, pages seventy-four through eighty-one, in _General
Booth and Other Poems_.
[2] This appears, pages seventy-four through eighty-one, in _General
Booth and Other Poems_.
[3] In the prose sketches in this book I have allowed myself a
story-teller’s license only a little. Sometimes a considerable
happening is introduced that came the day before, or two days after. In
some cases the events of a week are told in reverse order.
Lady Iron-Heels is obviously a story, but embodies my exact impression
of that region in a more compressed form than a note-book record could
have done.
The other travel-narratives are ninety-nine per cent literal fact and
one per cent abbreviation.
[4] Portions of this poem are scattered through this book for
interludes. Others are already printed in _General Booth and Other
Poems_.