Edited by Sidney Lanier

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“Amid all the strange and fanciful scenery of these stories, character and the ideals of character remain at the simplest and purest.”—The Independent.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, NEW YORK

Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Some Indian names appear to have spaces in some of their occurrences, but not in others.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Some index entries have been changed to match the spelling of the text they reference.