TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Variant spellings have been retained. In a few instances, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected. These are listed below.

1) In Footnote 20, the original reads: "The flour given was good for the bread was usually excellent." A comma has been added.

2) In Chapter II, page 16; the original reads "A cenus taken lately".

3) In Chapter II, page 39; the original reads "same one I had long tallks with before".

4) In Chapter II, page 49: the original reads "so had hrriedly to go".

5) In Chapter II, page 52: the original reads "What one longs for is possibility to have on day or afternoon off".

6) In Footnote 51, the original reads: "... sing only Psalms. never Hymns." A period has been replaced with a comma.

7) In Chapter III, page 58: the original reads: "you won't find child alive though;;".

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