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.
Page 201: “curiosities” was printed as “curosities”; changed here.
Page 210: “chimpanze” was printed that way.
Page 217: The “m” in “Embalm” was italicized in the original book; not
changed here.
Page 252: “young gentleman” was printed as “young gentlemen”; changed
here.
Page 255: “he was now possessed off” was printed that way.