Transcriber's Note: The Table of Contents did not appear in the original book.
Minor punctuation errors have been corrected without note, and hyphenation has been regularized. Spelling variants used in dialect have been retained. However, a few minor errors were corrected. These are indicated with a thin dotted line—hovering your cursor/mouse over them will reveal a note explaining the correction.
Spacing of contractions in dialect (e.g. he 'll, you 've, there 's) has been retained and regularized. These were printed as half-spaces in the original book. Spaces in two part contractions (e.g. could n't, had n't, sha' n't) have also been retained. However, ain't, 'ain't, don't, can't, wa'n't, and won't were all consistently printed without spaces, and appear that way in this e-book.