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I am readíing some tales from C.A. Smith, and found the following sentence:

A silver dollar, find a handkerchief marked with Buckingham's initials, were also round not far from the note-book.

I do not get it, what is the function of the "find a handkerchief" part?

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  • "round" is probably "found", on top of that.
    – Mary
    Jul 29, 2020 at 12:49

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I didn't manage to find the original 1930 issue of "Amazing Detective Tales", but the 1941 reprint of the story in "Tales of Wonder" prints the sentence as:

A silver dollar and a handkerchief...

As such, the word "find" is probably a transcription error.

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  • Ah, I guess you are right, I discovered a few more errors that seems like OCR problems. Thanks a lot!
    – John V
    Jul 29, 2020 at 10:12

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