TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The author’s original choice of spelling and variations therein have been maintained with the exception of the following:
too —> two great improvements {page 13}
loftly —> dancing round the lofty maypole {page 26}
second —> seconded his exertions {page 27}
The following attribution line, which appeared in the illustration captions in the original publication, has not been included in the captions in this ebook:
Lor. Ritter del. Druckerei von C. Kruthoffer, Frankfurt a. M.
The original version of this book used spaced text, most frequently for proper and place names. The spaced text has been reproduced using italics font in the html versions of the book.