THE WHITE FLAG
BOOKS BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
Nature
The Song of the Cardinal
Homing With the Birds
Birds of the Bible
Music of the Wild
Friends in Feathers
Moths of the Limberlost
Morning Face
Novels
Freckles
At the Foot of the Rainbow
A Girl of the Limberlost
The Harvester
Laddie
Michael O’Halloran
A Daughter of the Land
Her Father’s Daughter
The White Flag
Poetry
The Fire Bird
“What does my heart know of the heart of a child beating beneath it?”
THE WHITE FLAG
BY
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
FRONTISPIECE
BY
LESTER RALPH
S. B. GUNDY TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
TO
THE BOYS AND GIRLS “GROWN TALL”
WITH WHOM, IN CHILDHOOD,
I PASSED UNDER
THE WHITE FLAG