The stories in this volume are published with the kind permission of the periodicals in which they originally appeared--_Lippincott's Magazine_, Philadelphia, and the _Overland Monthly_, the _Argonaut_, the _Examiner_, the _News Letter_, and the _Call_, all of San Francisco. A train of circus-wagons, strung along a dusty road, in the Santa Clara Valley, crept slowly under the beating heat of a July sun. The dust rolled in clouds over the gaudy wagons of the menagerie. The outer doors of the cages had been opened to give access of air to the panting animals, but with the air came the dust, and the dust annoyed Romulus greatly. Never before had he longed for freedom so intensely. Ever since h…
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