[Transcriber's Notes]
Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of the first version of Prairie Folks by Hamlin Garland. We have used the 1893 edition of the book published by F. J. Schulte and Company for this transcription. This book is available through the Internet Archive courtesy of the New York Public Library.
In 1899, Garland published a revised edition of Prairie Folks with many changes:
- The short stories Saturday Night on the Farm and Uncle Ethan's Speculation were omitted from the 1899 edition.
- The short stories Aidgewise Feelings, Black Ephram, and The Wapseypinnicon Tiger were added to the 1899 edition.
- The order of Elder Pill and Bacon's Man were switched; some parts of Elder Pill were modified to make the story appear as if it was written after Bacon's Man. These alterations involved changed dialogue and the revision of scenes involving Mrs. Bacon and Merry Etty.
- A page or more of verse was added between each story.
- Some tinkering was done with the title and text of the rest of the short stories.
Notes:
The following alternate spellings of words or phrases were found in the text:
- every which-way (page 51);
every-which-way (page 91). - checkerboard (page 180);
checker-board (pages 169, 172)
On page 132, change faught to fought.
On page 138, 'Just goin' the same thing right over,' might sound better replacing doin' with goin' but Garland used goin'.