This is a story Smith rewrote and expanded in the early 1960's for intended inclusion in his first anthology, You Will Never Be The Same. It did not appear until 1993's The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith. In the rewrite he changed the main character, added characters, included dialogue, and set it in the chronology of his "Instrumentality of Mankind" stories.

The original story was written when the author was 15, and appeared in the June 1928 issue of The Adjutant, published by his high school cadet corps in Washington D.C. In this original form, it did not contain references to elements of his later "Instrumentality of Mankind" series, or dialogue.

The two versions should not be combined.