Welsh Rarebit Tales

“There, creeping out of the darkness, was that hideous thing.” (See page 171.)
Welsh Rarebit Tales
BY HARLE OREN CUMMINS
Illustrated by R. EMMETT OWEN
Cover and Decorations by BIRD
The Mutual Book Company Boston, Mass.
Copyright, by The Mutual Book Company 1902 Plimpton Press PRINTERS AND BINDERS NORWOOD, MASS.
To my Mother
The author wishes to express his thanks to S. S. McClure & Co., F. A. Munsey, The Shortstory Publishing Company, and others, for their courtesy in allowing him book rights on the following tales.

A PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation of tales, which resemble, more than anything else, the creations of a disordered brain.