Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
The language of the original publication has been retained, including unusual and inconsistent spelling, except as listed below.
The cover image (the dust jacket of the source publication) and possibly some of the illustrations are for a combined edition of two different books; this e-text only contains the Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young.
Depending on the hard- and software used not all elements may display as intended.
Title page, The Gospel of Serv’ce and other Sermons: as printed in the source document.
Page 31, ... that there were something ...: as printed in the source document.
Page 65, Uncle Ned and the Insurance Solicitor: the source document has a footnote marker on this page, but no footnote. Possibly the footnote refers to an earlier, slightly different, publication of this story in Lippincott’s Magazine.
Page 133, Henry Holt and David Oliver appear to be the same person.
Changes made
Footnotes have been moved to directly under the story in which they occur; illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor typographical errors have been corrected silently.
Page 216, the verse Gross Deception has been treated as a separate chapter.
Page 263: illustration caption changed to small capitals as other captions.