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Transcriber's Notes.

Introduction.

Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of _Wayside Courtships_ by Hamlin Garland. This collection of short stories was released in 1897. We used the book in Hathitrust from the Cornell University Library for our transcription.

Similar books by Garland are: _Main-Travelled Roads_, _Prairie Folks_, and _Other Main-Travelled Roads_. Five short stories from this collection were reprinted in _Other Main-Travelled Roads_:

• A Stop-Over at Tyre
• A Fair Exile
• An Alien in the Pines
• Before the Low Green Door
• A Preacher's Love Story

Detailed Notes.