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" In compiling these lists we have permitted no personal
preference or prejudice to consciously influence our judgement. The
general and particular results of our study will be found explained and
carefully detailed in the supplementary part of the volume. Mr. Cournos
has read the English periodicals, and I have read the American
periodicals. We have then compared our judgements.
EDWARD J. O'BRIEN.

THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES OF 1922

NOTE--The order in which the stories in this volume are printed is not
intended as an indication of their comparative excellence; the
arrangement is alphabetical by authors.

WHERE WAS WYCH STREET?
By STACY AUMONIER
(From _The Strand Magazine_ and _The Saturday Evening Post_)
1921, 1922

In the public bar of the Wagtail, in Wapping, four men and a woman were
drinking beer and discussing diseases. It was not a pretty subject, and
the company was certainly not a handsome one. It was a dark November
evening, and the dingy lighting of the bar seemed but to emphasize the
bleak exterior.


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