Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistencies in names between the body text and illustration captions—Zarius/Zaira, Pyerhus/Pyrrhus, Gissing’s/Genseigne’s, hydrangea/hortensia—have been retained as they appear in the original publication.
Changes have been made as follows:
- Page 2, exploring for the hundreth changed to exploring for the [hundredth]
- Page 6, but Fanny stoood changed to but Fanny [stood]
- Page 12, And you, Emmaline Capel, if I changed to And you, [Emmeline] Capel, if I
- Page 12 insert, Full stop added to the end of the caption, THEIR HEADS SO [ERECT.]
- Page 13, would be more suprised changed to would be more [surprised]
- Page 15, “A flower should smell good” And changed to “A flower should smell [good.”] And
- Page 21, and sees the more terrible changed to and [seems] the more terrible
- Page 24, Full stop added to the end of the caption, OLDER BROTHERS AND [FATHERS.]