A short story which is "often considered the best of Poe's humorous stories .... The piece is obviously a quiz on N. P. Willis, and is also a parody on a story by Bulwer". [From The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore]First published in Southern Literary Messenger, May 1835 (1:515-516). [Based on Bibliography of Edgar Allan Poe (1940), by Charles Frederick Heartman]
