Each story has an illustrated title and begins with an illustrated drop-cap. Unless a caption is present, the [Illustration] tag has been skipped in the titles and drop-caps for smoother text continuity. Of the rest, illustrations without a caption have a short description in parentheses, for example [Illustration: (Publisher’s colophon)]. Text in italics is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Text in Small Capitals has been rendered in ALL CAPITALS. First words of each story - ALL CAPITALS in the original - has been rendered here in sentence case.…
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