Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 3

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); Small Caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS; words in bold are represented as in =bold=, and superscript text is represented with the sign ^{text}.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain.
Nikolai V. Gogol
VOLUME III—RUSSIAN
DONE INTO ENGLISH BY JOHN COURNOS
INTRODUCTIONS BY J. BERG ESENWEIN
Editor of Lippincott’s Magazine
The Home Correspondence School Springfield, Massachusetts 1913
Copyright 1912 and 1913—J. B. Lippincott Company Copyright 1913—The Home Correspondence School