Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
The original mid-paragraph positions of Illustrations have been retained in this eBook, as they often are crucial to understanding the explanations.
The original [Table of Contents] used “ib.” for page numbers that were the same as the preceding number, but this eBook uses the actual numbers.
Page [42]: “then put the” was printed as “then pu- the”. It has been changed to “put” to be consistent with “put out the sixpence” at the end of the same paragraph. Both probably should be “pull”.
Page [61]: “grove” was printed that way.
Page [68]: Transcriber added “turn” to “turn the perfect colour of sack wine”.
Page [70]: “mattrass” was printed that way.
Page [75]: “griping” was printed that way.
The bottom of the image of a bottle on page [76] was cut-off in the original book.