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Title: Devil tales

Author: Virginia Frazer Boyle

Illustrator: A. B. Frost

Release date: April 1, 2023 [eBook #70436]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900

Credits: Charlene Taylor, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

Duplication of each chapter heading on a full page before each chapter has been removed.

“HE HEAR ALL DE SECRETS ER DER CREEPIN’ THINGS”
[p. 8]

DEVIL
TALES

BY
Virginia Frazer Boyle

ILLUSTRATED BY
A. B. FROST

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HARPER & BROTHERS
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