Transcriber's Notes:
Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.
Errors in punctuations, inconsistent spelling and inconsistent, hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted below.
On page 59, the period after "good things of this world" was replaced with a comma.
On page 69, the word "bulllied" was replaced with "bullied".
On page 125, a quotation mark was added after "never meddled with that handle since."
On page 167, a quotation mark was added after "shall double again".
On page 170, "Allnut" was replaced with "Allnutt".
On page 187, "Mablethrope" was replaced with "Mablethorpe", and the comma after "Go ahead, Philip" was replaced with a period.