Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 255, and speak him ==> and speak [to] him

page 257, that courge would fail ==> that [courage] would fail

page 260, and sung to him, ==> and [sang] to him,

page 267, not the slighest scruple ==> not the [slightest] scruple

page 268, femine refinement were ==> [feminine] refinement were

page 270, give me the sweatmeats ==> give me the [sweetmeats]

page 273, was actully a delightful ==> was [actually] a delightful

page 273, or exibit at home the ==> or [exhibit] at home the