The Blind Beggar of Odessa (excerpt from The Night Side of Nature)

Published in the The Night Side of Nature (1848), Chapter V, "Warnings" (see), pp. 158-64 of 107-64 (viewed at HathiTrust). It is not represented in the 1848 Contents list, nor distinguished where it begins by heading, whitespace, etc; only by a brief shift to and from the frame narrative, so to speak. The 1898 anthology omits the first and last sentences from the 1848 version of this account, which may be called this story's bits of the frame narrative: "A circumstance fully as remarkable as any recorded, occurred at Odessa, in the year 1842. ... This affair naturally excited great interest, and people all round the neighbourhood hastened into the city to learn the sentence."

  (From " Ghosts and Family Legends," by Catherine Crowe.) In the 1898 anthology Contents list, all three stories by Crowe share this parenthetical annotation below the line (title and page number); similarly in the story headings. Evidently that is correct for the other two stories only. The 1981 reprint of The Eerie book has the annotation (From " Ghosts and Family Legends," by Catherine Crowe.) for this story (both in the contents page and at the top of the story.