The narrator is a newspaperman who had the kindness to stop the presses to insert a Mr. Blake's item about a deeply distressing incident involving a friend of his. But at that late hour he didn't read it first. The next day he found he'd printed something quite incomprehensible.
Written around 1865, first published no later than 1875, when it was collected in book form.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1920 | Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Mystic-Humorous Stories | Doubleday, Page & Company | Anthology | 96 | |
| November 2006 |
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Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories | Wildside Press | Anthology | 78 |
| July 2015 |
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Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories | CreateSpace | Anthology |