Return to the pages of a beloved 1921 collection from one of America's most popular storytellers. The Gay Cockade gathers Temple Bailey's complete original short fiction, unabridged and faithfully reproduced, in which courtship, marriage, and friendship are tested by sacrifice, pride, and steadfast love. Across these stories, ordinary men and women discover that the truest courage often wears a cheerful face. This heritage edition presents the full, unaltered text with a new modern introduction that situates Bailey among the leading women writers of the early twentieth century, alongside reader's notes illuminating the customs, language, and social world of her era. Warm, witty, and quietly wise, these stories remain as affecting today as when they first charmed magazine readers a century ago. Part of The Founding Texts Library.