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Transcriber's Notes.
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected, and
hyphenation has been standardised. Variations in spelling and
punctuation have been retained.
The repetition of Story Titles on consecutive pages has been removed.
At the beginning of section III of the first story, Friday, the 31st of
August, 1809 was in fact a Thursday. This has not been corrected.
Italics are represented thus _italic_.