[Transcriber's Notes.]
Introduction.
Welcome to Project Gutenberg's edition of Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland. This collection of short stories was released in 1897. We used the book in Hathitrust from the Cornell University Library for our transcription.
Similar books by Garland are: Main-Travelled Roads, Prairie Folks, and Other Main-Travelled Roads. Five short stories from this collection were reprinted in Other Main-Travelled Roads:
- A Stop-Over at Tyre
- A Fair Exile
- An Alien in the Pines
- Before the Low Green Door
- A Preacher's Love Story
Detailed Notes.
Chapter 2—A Meeting in the Foothills.
On [Page 82]: Barn-yard is hyphenated and split between two lines. On Page 45, barn-yard was hyphenated, and on Page 67, it was not. Since barnyard on Page 67 was part of the same short story as barnyard on Page 82, the spelling without the hyphen took precedence over the hyphenated spelling from A Preacher's Love Story.
On [Page 84], we changed Ransey to Ramsey in the question: "You don't mean Mr. Ransey?"