Text: Robert A. Stewart (ed. J. A. Harrison), “Notes to The Cask of Amontillado,” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Vol. VI: Tales - part 05 (1902), 6:294

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With respect to several of the variations noted below, the Griswold reading may be preferred to the Godey's; but as we have no positive evidence that Poe made these changes, the latter form has been followed in the text.

Variations of Griswold from the text.

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