[Transcriber's Notes]
Introduction
Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of A Spoil of Office by Hamlin Garland. A scanned copy of this book is available on Hathitrust courtesy of Cornell University. For background on the themes of this novel, such as the Grange and the People's Party, please see [The Agrarian Crusade] by Solon Buck, a volume from the Chronicles of America series produced by Yale University in the public domain.
We have made the following emendations to the text:
Contents:
The Chapter Title at the beginning of each chapter should match the chapter title in the table of contents. What likely happened was that the chapter titles were updated, but not the table of contents. In any event, this was the assumption that was made. Therefore, the following chapter titles were emended in the table of contents:
Ch 2: Change oak to oaks in
The dinner under the oaks.
Ch 4: Add Bradley's to
Bradley's Trials at school.
Ch 8: Change attacks to offends in
Bradley offends Nettie's father.
Ch 14: Change his politics to
Bradley changes his political views.
Ch 18: Add quotes to
"Don't blow out the gas."
Ch 30: Change The great round-up at Chiquita to
The great round up.
Ch 32: Remove Washington again from
Conclusion.
Chapter 1
[Page 10]: In the paragraph beginning with You may talk about legislative corruption, these are several double quotes inside of double quotes. These were changed to single quotes, just like a similarly-structured paragraph on page 61:
- "Now you're getting at it,"
- "That's right,"
- "That's a fact."