Transcriber’s Note:

Based on the available evidence, the author for this book is most likely Cornelius Shea.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typos have been corrected.

Changes have been made as follows:

p. [22]: “hate as he darted” changed to “hate darted” (of hate darted)