The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales

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The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1890)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
651913The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales1890Arthur Conan Doyle

THE

CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR

AND OTHER TALES.


BY

A. CONAN DOYLE,

AUTHOR OF "MICAH CLARKE," ETC.


LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
AND NEW YORK: 15 EAST 16th STREET.
1890.

All rights reserved.

TO

MY FRIEND

Major-General A. W. DRAYSON

AS A SLIGHT TOKEN

OF

MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT

AND AS YET UNRECOGNISED SERVICES TO ASTRONOMY

this little volume

IS

DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of "Cornhill," "Temple Bar," "Belgravia," "London Society," "Cassell's," and "The Boys' Own Paper."

A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1930, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 93 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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