- [Page 25]—Possible typo, but left it as the original. “...and contented himself, as a rule, with creeping about the passages in list slippers,...”
- [Page 25]—arquebuse—printer typo corrected to arquebus.
- [Page 231]—setting—printer typo corrected to sitting.
- [Page 255]—missing word “have” inserted to: “But now I'll none of you, for you've played with me.”
- [Page 304]—Potential typo. “...walkin' round an' round the graveyard lie a six days' race fer the belt at Madison Square.”
- [Page 325]—inpatient—typo corrected to impatient. Although inpatient is a valid word, it is incorrectly used in this instance.
- [Page 345]—is—printer typo corrected to in.
- [Page 408]—Possible typo, but left it as in the original. “...then the affection spread to her knees and gradually extended upward.”
- Several instances of variant spelling of reci-pe and recipe. Left as in the original.
From
A Southern Porch
By
Dorothy Scarborough
A Book of Whimsy
The author does not preach the lost art of loafing. No! Nothing so direct as preaching. She merely loafs,—consistently, restfully, delightfully, but with an almost fatal hypnotic persuasiveness. She is a sort of stationary Pied Piper, luring the unwary reader to her sun-flecked porch, to watch with her the queer procession of created things go by,—from lovers and ghosts to lizards and toads.
Under the spell, convinced that loafing is better than doing, the reader stays and chuckles over the quiet humor and quaint fancies. He gets away finally,—all delightful experiences must end in this work-a-day world,—still chuckling, but with a renewed sense of life and life's values.
G. P. Putnam's Sons
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