THE STORY OF A LITTLE CHINESE SEABIRD 277 WHAT ABOUT THE CAT? 285 THE WILD MAN AND THE GENTLE BOY 288 THE GARMENTS OF THE FAIRIES 291 THE DREAMS THAT FAILED 294 GLAD YEN 296 THE DECEPTIVE MAT 297 THE HEART’S DESIRE 300 THE CANDY THAT IS NOT SWEET 303 THE INFERIOR MAN 308 THE MERRY BLIND-MAN 312 MISUNDERSTOOD 314 THE LITTLE FAT ONE 320 A CHINESE BOY-GIRL 323 PAT AND PAN 333 THE CROCODILE PAGODA 344 _ACKNOWLEDGMENT_ _I have to thank the Editors of The Independent, Out West, Hampton’s, The Century, Delineator, Ladies’ Home Journal, Designer, New Idea, Short Stories, Traveler, Good Housekeeping, Housekeeper, Gentlewoman, New York Evening Post, Holland’s, Little Folks, American Motherhood, New England, Youth’s Companion, Montreal Witness, Children’s, Overland, Sunset, and Westerner magazines, who were kind enough to care for my children when I sent them out into the world, for permitting the dear ones to return to me to be grouped together within this volume._ _SUI SIN FAR_ _Mrs. Spring Fragrance_ I When Mrs. Spring Fragrance first arrived in Seattle, she was unacquainted with even one word of the American language. Five years later her husband, speaking of her, said: “There are no more American words for her learning.” And everyone who knew Mrs. Spring Fragrance agreed with Mr. Spring Fragrance. Mr. Spring Fragrance, whose business name was Sing Yook, was a young curio merchant. Though conservatively Chinese in many respects, he was at the same time what is called by the Westerners, “Americanized.” Mrs. Spring Fragrance was even more “Americanized.”