Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious printer’s errors corrected, including unambiguous typos, spellings corrected to match standard spelling at time of publication, missing but implied quote marks, and the like.
On the final page, a small finger pointing to the right has been replaced with “--->”
Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, and other inconsistencies.