Transcriber’s Notes

Text notes:

  1. For the HTML version, page numbers of the original printed text are displayed within brackets to the side of the text.
  2. In order to facilitate word wrapping, an ellipsis in the middle of a sentence is replaced by a group of three periods. This group has a leading and, unless a comma is present, trailing blank space added. Ellipses at the end of a sentence do not have a leading blank space, but closing punctuation has been added if needed.
  3. Footnotes have been numbered and moved to the end of each story.
  4. Half-title pages have been removed. The page numbers given in the table of contents have been adjusted.
  5. Illustrations have been placed in a manner to avoid splitting a paragraph. The page numbers given in the List of Illustrations have been adjusted as needed.
  6. Changed paragraphs ending in “,” to “:—” to match style of the rest of the book:
    1. pg 129: with due reverence,
    2. pg 139: clear and distinct,
    3. pg 151: laughed good-humouredly and,
  7. Except as mentioned above and in the Change List that follows, every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard punctuation, inconsistently hyphenated words, etc.

Change List (page numbers from original printed book):