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PREFACE.
It is difficult to make a volume of short stories homogeneous, but these have this in common, that they concern themselves with war and sport--a fact
which may commend them to the temper of the times. Such as they are, I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of the tales which I have written during the last six years.
A. CONAN DOYLE.
Undershaw, Hindhead,
February 18th, 1900.
