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Тут в комментариях к американскому изданию 2006/2008 года народ жалуется, что издательство накосячило с текстом - видимо, криво распознали текст из старых изданий и пустили в печать, плохо вычитав:

http://www.amazon.ca/Robert-Asprins-.../dp/1592221114

Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures Volume 1 Paperback – Sep 30 2008
by Robert Asprin (Author), Phil Foglio (Artist)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com

Fun Stories, but needed editing
My biggest complaint was the editing. It looks like Volume One was put together by scanning the prior books. This lead to words being hyphenated mid page or Ls turning up as 1s, other areas had extra or missing line breaks.

Good collection, some of it a terrible OCR job
However, it should be noted that while for the most part the text is fine there are sections where it's very apparently a terrible scanning job from a previous printing. Indentation all over the place, words hyphenated in the middle of a line, punctuation showing up out of nowhere, and in one especially bad page many of the words end in subscripted letters. It's obvious that whoever was supposed to be checking the scanned text, didn't. Very distracting.

What the heck?
However, as has been previously stated by other reviewers, the book has a ton of typographical errors. It became rather annoying trying figure out if words were being intentionally hyphenated for stressing purposes. Also, words run together, obviously misspelled, subscripted, etc.

Надо полагать, текст по ссылке сканировали с этого кривого издания.

P.S. Кстати, накосячившее издательство вскоре прогорело:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisha_Merlin_Publishing

In April 2007 Meisha Merlin announced on their website that they would cease operations the following month; no further business details were disclosed.