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[Frontispiece caption]: Was ‘Page 265’ (Lady Dundee lifted up the child for him to kiss. Pages 261-2.)

[Page 143, illustration caption]: Was ‘145’ (“Ye will have to answer to man and God for this.” Page 143.)

[Page 158]: Was ‘hundrel’ (belly, and taken him to Edinburgh with a hundred of his Majesty’s Horse before him and a hundred behind to keep him safe; ye)

[Page 166, illustration caption]: Was ‘168’ (She could not speak nor move, but only looked at him. Page 166.)

[Page 226]: Was ‘Mackay’ (more than when hounds run a fox to his lair. MacKay would be arranging how to trap him, anticipating his ways of escape, and stopping)