TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:
Front cover and back cover images have been repaired to remove library stickers and are placed in the public domain.
On [page 12], opening quotes were added in the drop-cap illustration, taken from another illustration.
The text, including punctuation, was preserved as in the original except for the following:
- on page 9, “holiday than Chrstmas” was changed to “[holiday than Christmas]”
- on page 19, “Weems ‘Life of Washington,’” was changed to “[Weems’ ‘Life of Washington,’]”
- on page 19, “Aesops Fables” was changed to “[Aesop’s Fables]”
- on page 48, the text beginning with “[The idea of having]” was moved to a new paragraph.
- on page 67, “of it’s beauty” was changed to “[of its beauty]”