That question the reader must decide as he likes.

FINIS.

Transcriber's Note

A Table of Contents has been added by the transcriber for the convenience of the reader.

Saint is abbreviated to both S. and St. in this book.

The author refers to plants by the names of escallonica and eschalonia. It's likely that both are errors for escallonia, but they are preserved as printed.

Instances of archaic spelling (e.g. taught meaning taut) are preserved as printed. Variant spelling (e.g. jewelry and jewellery) is preserved as printed except where there was a clear prevalence of one form over another, as follows:

Page [21]—Wyvell amended to Wyvill—"... on one occasion a preventive man named Ewan Wyvill, ..."

Page [21]—Wyvell amended to Wyvill—"Wyvill had disappeared, and the body was recovered ..."