Transcriber's Notes:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.
Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted below:
On page 90, "chlidren" was replaced with "children".
On page 116, a comma was placed after "with suspicion".
On page 116, the single quotation mark after "leave it again." was replaced with a double quotation mark.