Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious printer’s errors have been corrected; for the details, see below. Most illustrations have been linked to the larger versions; to see the larger version, click on the illustration.

Typos fixed:

• page 072—spelling normalized: changed ‘midday’ to ‘mid-day’
• page 132—inserted a missing closing quote after ‘a child of her age’
• page 137—spelling normalized: changed ‘careworn’ to ‘care-worn’
• page 147—typo fixed: changed ‘physican’ to ‘physician’
• page 171—typo fixed: changed ‘vocies’ to ‘voices’
• page 262—removed an extra closing quote after ‘the scarlet letter too!’
• page 291—spelling normalized: changed ‘birdlike’ to ‘bird-like’
• page 300—typo fixed: changed ‘intruments’ to ‘instruments’
• page 306—spelling normalized: changed ‘deathlike’ to ‘death-like’