Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
[p. 13]: The one-sentence paragraph that starts “I am astonished at you...” does not belong in this story. It is from another story entitled “Some of Lincoln’s Jokes” (George B. Herbert, The Popular History of the Civil War in America, F. M. Lupton, Publisher, New York, 1885, p. 476).