Transcriber’s Note
Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected.
The following issues should be noted. There were a number of co nfusions about nested quotation marks, which have been addressed to ease the reading experience. Where the author’s intent is unclear, the text is retained.
Errors of punctuation in the advertisement section at the end of the text were corrected, silently, in the interest of consistency.
| p. 5 | intercour[es/se] | Transposed. |
| p. 41 | [‘]Well, I don’t deny | Added. |
| p. 74 | [‘]Quite right, Dick; | Added. |
| p. 94 | and considerable[./,] Mick and his sons | Corrected. |
| p. 99 | ‘Ladies and gentlemen!’ he shouted[.] | Added. |
| p. 109 | the English thoroughbred.[’] | Added. |
| p. 116 | labouring up and [and] glanced | Removed. |
| p. 118 | Dick [road/rode] up straight | Corrected. |
| p. 147 | about one another,[’] | Added. |
| p. 178 | licks [’]im | Added. |
| p. 206 | Fred Churbett out of [of] his bed | Removed. |
| p. 224 | villians | sic. |
| p. 225 | [“]if we meet any | Added. |
| back you go to the barracks[’/”] | Corrected. | |
| [‘]They’d take me ... and free from trouble,”[’] | Added. | |
| p. 227 | 'What a tragedy!['] | Added. |
| p. 232 | any other[ other] part | Removed. |
| p. 252 | [‘]I like forest | Added. |
| p. 269 | compressd | sic. |
| p. 275 | I see it in your face[.] | Added. |
| p. 287 | wild-f[l]owl | Removed. |
| p. 298 | he became a finder of continents.[’] | Added. |
| p. 310 | [‘]You will enjoy | Added. |
| Hu[r]bert | Removed. | |
| p. 313 | Gera[r/l]d | Corrected. |
| p. 315 | my dear boy[,/.] | Corrected. |
| p. 318 | but the old who die![’] | Removed. |
| p. 367 | home at last——[”/’] | Corrected. |
| Hu[r]bert | Removed. | |
| p. 373 | well-featured, manly[.] | Added. |
| p. 419 | But some[w]how | Removed. |