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The Captain of The Polestar and Other Tales

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Captain of The Polestar and Other Tales is a collection of ten short stories. The compilation was first published in 1890.


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 Boy's Own Paper."

A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.

Contents

The Captain Of The Pole-Star
J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
The Great Keinplatz Experiment
The Man From Archangel
That Little Square Box
John Huxford's Hiatus
A Literary Mosaic
John Barrington Cowles
The Parson Of Jackman's Gulch
The Ring Of Thoth

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