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WELSH RAREBIT TALES.


[Illustration: “There, creeping out of the darkness, was that hideous
thing.” (See page 171.)]




  Welsh Rarebit Tales

  BY

  HARLE OREN CUMMINS

  [Illustration]

  _Illustrated by_

  _R. EMMETT OWEN_

  _Cover and Decorations by BIRD_

  THE MUTUAL BOOK COMPANY
  BOSTON, MASS.




  COPYRIGHT, BY
  THE MUTUAL BOOK COMPANY
  1902


  Plimpton Press
  PRINTERS AND BINDERS
  NORWOOD, MASS.




To my Mother




The author wishes to express his thanks to S. S. McClure & Co., F.
A. Munsey, The Shortstory Publishing Company, and others, for their
courtesy in allowing him book rights on the following tales.




PREFACE.


A preface is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public
for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to s