Transcriber’s Note

Variations in hyphenation (“countryside”, “country-side”; “headquarters”, “head-quarters”) have not been changed.

Other changes, which have been made to the text:

[page 19], “tomount” changed to “to mount”
[page 23], quote mark added after “mishap.”
[page 33], “Lasetrygones” changed to “Laestrygones”
[page 76], “asid” changed to “said”
[page 79], quote mark added after “letter-carriers.”
[page 87], single quote mark changed to double quote mark after “long.”
[page 111], “oga” changed to “toga”
[page 115], quote mark added after “free.”
[page 139], quote mark added after “wanted.”
[page 156], “eemed” changed to “seemed”
[page 157], “greal” changed to “great”
[page 178], period added after “Sorbiodunum”, comma changed to period after [“them”]
[page 233], quote mark added after “man.”
[page 255], “Or” changed to “On”
[page 288], “inot” changed to “into”
[page 297], quote mark added after “man,”