TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, schoolboy, school-boy; anyone, any one; highlows, high-lows; wilfulness; ostler; irruption.
[Pg 59]: ‘eat his trout’ replaced by ‘ate his trout’.
[Pg 171]: ‘began to develope’ replaced by ‘began to develop’.