Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained. Differences in chapter titles between the table of contents and individual chapter headings for Chapters [V], [X], [XV], [XVIII], [XXI], [XXVI], and [XXVII] are preserved here.
The following apparent typographical errors were corrected:
Page [86], “villge” changed to “village.” (before anyone else in the village was born)
Page [126], “firtree” changed to “fir tree.” (sticks and pieces of dried fir tree wood)
Page [127], “it” changed to “if.” (if she did not want to use them all)