Transcriber's note:
Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.
Missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the original text.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.
Mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed.
The transcriber has changed hyphenation in the index to match the book in the following cases:
cornstalk to corn-stalk
lawsuit to law-suits
playhouses to play-houses
tithingman to tithing-man