Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Note in particular that the apostrophe is very rarely used to indicate abbreviation. Italics are represented thus _italic_. Bring the Jubilee By Ward Moore _Breathe the Air Again_ _Greener Than You Think_ _Bring the Jubilee_ This is an original novel—not a reprint—published by FARRAR, STRAUS & YOUNG, INC. The low price of $2.00 is made possible by large printings of combined editions. Bring the Jubilee WARD MOORE FARRAR, STRAUS and YOUNG, Inc. NEW YORK Copyright 1952 Fantasy House, Inc. Copyright 1953 Ward Moore All rights reserved. Manufactured in the  U. S. A. Library of Congress catalog card number: 53-10417 BACK COVER MAP: BETTMANN ARCHIVE _For TONY BOUCHER and MICK McCOMAS who liked this story_ What he will he does, and does so much That proof is call’d impossibility —_Troilus and Cressida_ It is always the puzzle of the nature of time that brings our thoughts to a standstill. And if time is so fundamental that an understanding of its true nature is for ever beyond our reach, then so also in all probability is a decision in the age-long controversy between determination and free will. —_The Mysterious Universe_ by James Jeans Contents I _Life in the Twenty-Six States_ 1 II _Of Decisions, Minibiles, and Tinugraphs_ 12 III _A Member of the Grand Army_ 22 IV _Tyss_ 32 V _Of Whigs and Populists_ 42 VI _Enfandin_ 50 VII _Of Confederate Agents in 1942_ 61 VIII _In Violent Times_ 71 IX _Barbara_ 76 X _The Holdup_ 86 XI _Of Haggershaven_ 95 XII _More of Haggershaven_ 106 XIII _Time_ 116