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PATRICK O’BRIAN
Collected Short Stories
Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain
by HarperCollinsPublishers 1994
Copyright © Patrick O’Brian 1950, 1953, 1956, 1974, 1994
‘The Return’, ‘The Happy Despatch’ and ‘The Dawn Flighting’ first appeared in The Last Pool (1950); ‘Not Liking to Pass the Road Again’, ‘The Slope of the High Mountain’, ‘The Little Death’, ‘The Passeur’, ‘The Tunnel at the Frontier’ and ‘The Path’ in The Walker (1953); ‘Billabillian’, ‘The Soul’, ‘Lying in the Sun’ and ‘The Walker’ in Lying in the Sun (1956); and ‘The Rendezvous’, ‘The Stag at Bay’, ‘Samphire’, ‘The Clockmender’, ‘The Chian Wine’, The Virtuous Peleg’, ‘A Passage of the Frontier’, ‘The Voluntary Patient’, ‘The Long Day Running’, ‘On the Bog’, ‘The Lemon’, ‘The Last Pool,’ ‘The Handmaiden’ and ‘On the Wolfsberg’ in The Chian Wine (1974).
Patrick O’Brian asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Contents
Not Liking to Pass the Road Again
