Transcriber's Notes

  1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
  2. Frontispiece illustration relocated to after title page.
  3. Lines printed out of order in published text have been corrected:
    page 68, lines 4 and 5 as in original:
    friends to a house-warming and I don't
    hard on me. For I've invited all my
    page 112, lines 19 and 20 as in original:
    You saw a raising bee and didn't know it!
    are the one that's mistaken--and not I!