TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The text contains many inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation, and these have been retained from the original.
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
Some entries in the Table of Contents have been moved to reflect the actual order of appearance in the text.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
Page vi: Cocoa changed to Cocoanut
Page vii: Rasins changed to Raisins
Page 27: Bonesett changed to Boneset
Page 50: clowdy changed to cloudy
Page 63: duplicate word "it" removed
Page 68: laddle changed to ladle
Page 73: tke changed to the
Page 77: payer changed to paper
Page 82: perserved changed to preserved
Page 87: PRELINES changed to PRALINES