Transcriber’s Notes

The following changes have been made to the text as printed:

  1. Illustrations within chapters have been moved close to the text they illustrate. The page numbers shown in the [list of illustrations] refer to their placement in the printed text.
  2. A [heading] “Rumpty-Dudget’s Tower” has been moved from Page 3 to Page 1. The hyphen has also been inserted into this heading.
  3. On Page 4 the [two lines] “and fasten down their eyelids, they saw stars,” and “white, blue, and red, twinkling in the sky overhead;” were transposed. This has been corrected.
  4. On Page 36 a superfluous [quote mark] has been removed from the start of the line “But where are the Golden Ivy-seed and ...”
  5. On Page 55 “answered the king” has been changed to [“answered the King”], for consistency.
  6. On Page 61 “pine tree” has been changed to [“pine-tree”], for consistency.

The following anomalies in the printed text are noted, but no change has been made:

  1. Spelling has been retained as it appears in the original book.
  2. The word [“today”] appears in the Preface (Page x), while on Page 24 it is printed as [“to-day”].