Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs and so that they are next to the text they illustrate. Thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations, and the order of illustrations may not be the same in the List of Illustrations and in the book.

Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.

On page 15, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark.

On page 85, "thet" was replaced with "that".

On page 86, a period was added after "face".

On page 125, "overspead" was replaced with "overspread".

On page 132, a period was added after "husband".

On page 163, "convalesence" was replaced with "convalescence".

On page 179, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark.

On page 189, a period was added after "morrow".

On page 193, a double quotation mark was added after "getting well.".

On page 205, "protÈgÈ" was replaced with "protÉgÉ".

On page 207, a single quotation mark was deleted before a double quotation mark.

On page 227, a single quotation mark was replaced with a double quotation mark.

On page 257, a period was replaced with a question mark.

On page 264, a single quotation mark was deleted before a double quotation mark.

On page 296, a period was added after "fashion words".

On page 304, a hyphen was added before "r-retched dinner".