Part I Preface to “The First Forty-nine” THE FIRST FOUR STORIES ARE THE LAST ones I have written. The others follow in the order in which they were originally published. The first one I wrote was “Up in Michigan,” written in Paris in 1921. The last was “Old Man at the Bridge,” cabled from Barcelona in April of 1938. Beside The Fifth Column, I wrote “The Killers,” “Today Is Friday,” “Ten Indians,” part of The Sun Also Rises and the first third of To Have and Have Not in Madrid. It was always a good place for working. So was Paris, and so were Key West, Florida, in the cool months; the ranch, near Cooke City, Montana; Kansas City; Chicago; Toronto, and Havana, Cuba. Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them. There are many kinds of stories in this…