Transcriber's Note:
1. Punctuation has been normalized. Inconsistent hyphenation and spellings have been left as printed.
2. The illustration caption on page 204 is missing text following (see—
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MR. THORN'S EGGS?" (see
3. Page 231 "having been on a voyage to Spain"—missing word "on" was added.
4. Some illustrations were originally located in the middle of paragraphs. These have been adjusted to not interrupt the flow of reading. In some cases this means that the page number that the illustration was originally on is not visible.