Transcriber's Notes
This text is a reproduction of the 1822 edition. It includes many dialect and archaic words and spellings, as well as many typographical errors and inconsistencies which have not been changed.
Chapters are inconsistently headed "CHAPTER" or "CHAP."
Inconsistently spelled words include:
- Corby and Corbie
- Gibby and Gibbie
- collie and colley
- chace and chase
- inclosed and enclosed
- raggamuffians, raggamuffins, and ragamuffin
- spier and speer
- camstairy and camstary
The text includes many examples of inconsistent hyphenation. The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as two words:
- bacon ham and bacon-ham
- bed side and bed-side
- dare say and dare-say (the latter was hyphenated over a line break)
- day light and day-light
- hind legs and hind-legs
- look out and look-out
- pike staff and pike-staff
- Tersit moor and Tersit-moor
- well springs and well-springs
The following are inconsistently hyphenated or printed as one word:
- goatskin and goat-skin
- gunpowder and gun-powder
- outdone and out-done
- staircase and stair-case (one occurrence of the latter hyphenated over a line break)
- weatherbeaten and weather-beaten
The following are inconsistently printed as one or two words:
- has na and hasna
- liege man and liegeman
- maybe be, maybe, and may-be (some hyphenated over line breaks)
- mean time and meantime
- mean while and meanwhile
- some body and somebody
The text contains the following apparent errors:
- p. 10 mis-spelling "ignominous"
- p. 27 missing space ("the shapes o'men?")
- p. 55 missing full stop ("behold he was wanting")
- p. 59 missing quotation mark ("till I speak t'ye, said")
- p. 104 mis-spelling "cutfing"
- p. 113 missing comma "Come away/Elfin grey,")
- p. 121 mis-spelling "quite" ("all was quite and gloomy")
- p. 124 comma instead of full stop ("the whole party in its consequences,")
- p. 137 comma instead of full stop ("exclamatory sound, Charlie had")
- p. 172 "22" instead of "21" ("22. So I borrowed me")
- p. 179 "she" instead of "he" ("21. And she said, Blessed")
- p. 188 missing space ("or a good shareo' ilka")
- p. 197 missing quotation mark ("afore I gi'e my gully")
- p. 212 comma instead of full stop ("thorns above them, "Now!"")
- p. 226 duplicate word ("all mankind it must must shock;")
- p. 229 extra quotation mark ("ane o' the best."")
- p. 229 duplicate word ("how to take care care o'")
- p. 261 mis-spelling "ty'e"
- p. 261 missing quotation mark ("sae ye may, my man!")
- p. 289 mis-spelling "espepecially"
- p. 300 duplicate word ("I was in one so so profound,")
- p. 337 missing quotation mark (" to the right hand or to the left.")
- p. 341 missing comma ("said he "that enables")
- p. 342 extra quotation mark ("give us a striking instance."")
- p. 352 missing quotation mark ("This is unfair, and")