The

LITTLEST REBEL

By

EDWARD PEPLE

GROSSET & DUNLAP: _Publishers_

NEW YORK

Copyright, 1914 By the ESTATE OF EDWARD H. PEPLE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM
WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER.

_Printed in the United States of America_




FOREWORD


The play, from which this book is written, was in no sense of the word
intended as a war drama; for war is merely its background, and always in
the center stands a lonely little child.

War is its theme but not its purpose. War breeds hatred, horror,