1352. THE FAITH OF MEN. +Macmillan; New York, 1904. Heinemann; London, 1904. 

Short stories, including 

[a] A Relic of the Pliocene. (Colliers, 12 January 1901) Northwest Territory, Canada, at the time of the gold rush. 

*  A stranger with a tale joins the narrator at his fireside. The story: Coming upon an isolated valley, he found the last living mammoth. Twenty feet high and thirty feet long, with tusks some eighteen feet long, it was nevertheless a timid, harmless beast. But the narrator was enraged since it accidentally killed his dog. As revenge, he sealed off the valley, chased the mammoth around for two months until it collapsed, then hamstrung it and slowly killed it with a hand axe while it whimpered and groaned. As proof of his story he has mukluks made of mammoth hide. 

*  A cruel, disgusting story that does not even have the virtue of offering a good explanation in terms of psychopathology.