CONTENTS.
Transcriber's Note
Missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired.
Book 1.
Page 86: 11.: 'stich' corrected to 'stitch'.
"Stitch! stitch! stitch!"
Page 87: 42.: '10,000' corrected to '10,100'.
"Arithmetic!: 202 x 50 = 10,100"
Page 91: 123.:
123.
| { | √(60 - 302) = 51.96152 √(60 - 402) = 44.72136 | } |
corrected to
123.
| { | √(602 - 302) = 51.96152 √(602 - 402) = 44.72136 | } |
Page 92: 156. 'chittim wood'
Genesis 6, 14 in the King James Bible and the Revised Standard Version state that the ark was made of gopher wood, covered with pitch, inside and out. The New English Bible gives cypress ribs, covered with reeds, and then pitched, inside and out. Concise Oxford English Dictionary agrees with the King James version (and RSV). Some other versions of the Bible may have given chittim wood - an American shrub:
Chittimwood - definition of chittimwood by The Free Dictionary Noun, 1. chittimwood - shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada. bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, ...
... and Merry's Book of Puzzles was published in New York.
Pp. various: 'rod' is a pre-decimal measure of length. A rod, pole, or perch - 5½ yards, or 16½ feet. = 5.03 metres
Book 2.
Page 18: 'wh' correctred to 'who'.
68. Behead an article of apparel, and leave one who sometimes wears it.
Page 35: 'diamter' corrected to 'diameter'.
"The third, of which the diameter is one foot, circumscribes the first and second."
Page 62: 'know' corrected to 'known'.
"My first in cities is well known"
Page 89: Second '102.' corrected to '103.'.
"103. Apollos."
Page 90: 'I'ts' corrected to 'It's'.
"146. When It's mild (it smiled.)"
Page 92: 242. 'Heah-less.' corrected to 'head-less.'
Page 93: 317. 'Heartseaso.' corrected to 'Heartsease.'
Page 94:
383. A yard and a quarter. Abe—Abe-L.
Ell (from Wikipedia)
... In England, the ell was usually 45 in (1.143 m), or a yard and a quarter. It was mainly used in the tailoring business but is now obsolete....
Book 3.
Pages 21-22: Illustration moved to front of poem to avoid breaking the stanza.
Page 51: 'Know-Kothing' corrected to 'Know-Nothing'
"Set me down for a Know-Nothing;"
Page 84: 'wo' is probably an old form of 'woe'.
"Ransomed from the depths of wo."
Page 90: The following extraneous entries have been removed from the list of Contents, and the (correct) page numbers below reinstated with the correct Poem titles.
| Our Garret | 71 |
| Charley and his Boat | 74 |
| Blessed is he that Considereth the Poor | 75 |
| The Dissatisfied Angler Boy | 77 |
| The Destroyer Destroyed | 79 |
| The Rose in the Vale | 81 |
| Of What is the Alphabet Composed? | 83 |
| Geography and Astronomy | 83 |
| Going to School | 84 |
| The Way to Do It | 85 |
| When One Won't Quarrel, Two Can't | 85 |
| The Caterpillar | 87 |
| The Warning Bell | 88 |
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