E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) “‘The sheep are coming! They’re coming over the hill! Watch, Liebchen; watch, precious!’” CHILDREN OF MEN S. S. McClure Co. CONTENTS The End of the Task The Sader Guest A Rift in the Cloud Out of His Orbit The Poisoned Chai Urim and Thummim A Yiddish Idyll The Story of Sarai The Americanisation of Shadrach Cohen Hannukah Lights A Swallow-Tailer for Two Deborah An Interruption The Murderer Unconverted