Transcriber’s Notes
The Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber.
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Inconsistent hyphenation was not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; all unbalanced quotation marks were remedied.
Words in dialect have not been checked for consistency and have not been changed.
The credit line for each story was printed at the bottom of the story’s first page. In this eBook, those credit lines have been repositioned just below the titles and enclosed in parentheses.
Page [151]: “mien” was printed as “mein”; changed here.
Page [160]: “via Bourdeaux” was printed as “via., Bourdeaux”; changed here.
Page [195]: “ricocheting” was printed as “richocheting”; changed here.