Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island

by Elijah Kellogg

Punctuation has been standardised.

Some words were obscured in the original publication on pages 277 and 278—these have been changed according to the earlier 1868 publication by the same publisher as follows:

• • Page 277
    If I should go alone ([alone] obscured)
• • Page 278
    beach, which, after Hannah ([beach] obscured)

Otherwise, spelling has been retained as published except as follows:

• • Page 15
    held him as in a vice changed to
    held him as in a [vise]
• • Page 104
    cutting a man’s head of changed to
    cutting a man’s head [off]
• • Page 147
    if you heave her too changed to
    if you heave her [to]
• • Page 242
    out of your gripe changed to
    out of your [grip]
• • Page 267
    Is’nt this good? changed to
    [Isn’t] this good?
• • Page 326
    20. HARDSCRABBLE OF ELM ISLAND changed to
    20. [HARD-SCRABBLE] OF ELM ISLAND
• • Number 32 in the list of books
    or the Fortunes or changed to
    or the Fortunes [of]