Transcriber’s Note

On page 53 the line “men then in vogue he remarked how much” was omitted

completely from the original printing; it has been restored by comparison

with another edition.

On page 114 the line “emancipated a race. When Abraham Lin-” was printed,

in the original, in the middle of an unrelated paragraph several pages

earlier; it has been moved to where it belongs.

In the Table of Contents an entry has been added for the story “A

Clergyman Who Talked But Little”, omitted in the original.

A few other minor printing errors, of punctuation, spelling, page

numbering, etc., have been corrected without note.

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