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Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

p. 190: “him” changed to “her” (eyed her gravely.)

p. 193: “a” added (found a great)

End-advertisements: “tractless” changed to “trackless” (the trackless forest)