Footnotes:
[20] Fasting or abstaining from flesh-meat on Saturdays, in honour of Our Lady, is a custom, an act of voluntary discipline, prevailing almost exclusively in the German and Austrian Highlands.—Translator's Note.
[21] Hella, daughter of Laki and goddess of the dead, is the Persephone of Norse mythology.—Translator's Note.
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Transcriber's notes:
In the text version italics are represented with _underscore_ and small caps with ALL CAPS.
In the caption to the Frontispiece, the artist is named as Milicent Norris, elsewhere Melicent is used.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
The following corrections have been made:
Table of Contents: who went to prison -> period added after prison
p. 16: in the Murztal; -> Murztal changed to Mürztal
p. 18: bellettristic newspapers -> bellettristic changed to belletristic
p. 27: Sünders was printed with a breve mark above the u instead of ü
p. 76: something about him. -> added closing quotation mark after him.
p. 129: diff erently -> differently
p. 154: liked carved -> liked changed to like
p. 171: It can't be possible---- Why -> added exclamation mark after possible----
p. 172: as Grosshöfen -> as changed to at
p. 174: schoo teacher -> schoo changed to school
p. 195: a telegram -> added colon after telegram
p. 201: came to us see -> came to see us