THE PAGANS

By

Arlo Bates



The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
_All's Well That Ends Well_; iv--3




DEDICATION.


To those who would be Pagans, did any such organization
exist, I take pleasure in offering this attempt to picture a phase
of life which they know.



She answered, "cast thy rosary on the ground; bind on thy
shoulder the thread of paganism; throw stones at the glass of
piety; and quaff from a full goblet."
_Persian Religious Hymn._