The Black Cat: A Monthly Magazine of Original Short Stories. No. 41. February, 1899.

vi, 44, vii-xxiv pp. A single issue of the 19th century magazine featuring short stories, most well-known for publishing Jack London's A Thousand Deaths (just two issues after this one). Numerous ads precede and follow text - our favorites are for: The Sororis Shoe; Monarch and Defiance Bicycles; Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster; Schlitz; 'Drunkenness Cured' (this one doesn't even name the product); The Dann Patent Reclining Go Cart; and The Natural Body Brace. Includes: On the Edge of Things by Geik Turner; Negative Number Twelve by Ernest Peabody; Manuel, of the Guardia Civil by Charles Bryant Howard; The Lynchpin Sensation by Joanna E. Wood; The Lady and the Kwang-Chiu by Frank L. Pollock.