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Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious errors in spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been
silently corrected in this version, but minor inconsistencies and
archaic forms have been retained as printed.
The footnotes have been relocated to the end of their respective
stories and renumbered to better fit the ebook format.
In addition, the following changes have been made:
On page 43: harnassed _to_ harnessed, in the phrase: Three elephants
harnessed tandem go to each gun.
On page 250: Welling _to_ welling, in the phrase: Raines’s young
barrister had for once put aside his unslaked and welling passion for
alibis and insanity,(...)
On page 315: _Mungoose_ _to_ _Mongoose_, in the phrase: (...)said the
Lieutenant of the _Mongoose_, a real white-painted ram-bow gunboat(...)
On page 348: come _to_ came, in the phrase: A woman came out of the
doorway (...)
On page 365: sand to lea _to_ scud to lee, in the line[4]:
Whirling like a windmill on the dirty scud to lee
[4] This change is found in most other editions of this poem.