A Branch Road
On [Page 50], grape-vine is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. There are three other occurrences of grapevine without the hyphen, and none with. We transcribed the word without the hyphen.
Under the Coolly
Several times in this short story, Howard was abbreviated as How. with the period. This convention was retained.
On [Page 105], add to after them in the sentence He simply pushed them one side and went on with his reading.
On [Page 120], barn-yard is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. In the same short story, barn-yard is hyphenated on Page 124 in the middle of the line. However, barnyard is spelled without the hyphen on Page 78, also in the same short story. Barnyard is spelled without a hyphen on Page 213 and on Page 249. We went with the majority and spelled barnyard without a hyphen here, which makes the item on page 124 the sole outlier.
On [Page 124], barn-door is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. There are no other occurrences of the word in this book. We transcribed barn-door, with the hyphen, mainly because barn-yard is spelled with a hyphen on the same page.
On [Page 124], horse-trough is hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing. Horse-trough also occurs on page 185 and 291, with the hyphen, so it was retained here as well.
Return of a Private
On [Page 173]-[Page 174], we added a missing quote before but in the paragraph:
"They called that coffee Jayvy," grumbled one of them, "but it never went by the road where government Jayvy resides. I reckon I know coffee from peas."
On [Page 182], remove me from Gimme me a kiss!