Transcriber’s Note

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unpaired.

Redundant book hemi-title pages have been deleted.

Table of Contents added by Transcriber.

Page [87]: “you’ll grow like it” was printed that way.

Page [128]: “But there were others hours.” was printed that way.

Page [141]: “gettin’ oneasy” was printed that way; should be “uneasy”.