Transcriber’s Note

Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “daybreak”, “day-break”, “overhead”, “over-head”) have not been changed.

In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.

Other changes, which have been made to the text:

[page 32], “alrea d” changed to “already”
[page 81], “stirke” changed to “strike”
[page 93], “grashopper” changed to “grasshopper”
[page 188], quote mark added before “The state of misery”
[page 194], “decome” changed to “become”
[page 312], quote mark added before “There is, to the north of Memphis”