This book contains inconsistent hyphenations which have been left as printed. Corrections to punctuation have been made without comment.

Other changes that have been made are:

• Page 70: “posssible” changed to “possible”.
• Page 103: “what do you thing of this?” changed to “what do you think of this?”.
• Page 138: “betwen the leaves” changed to “between the leaves”.
• Page 181: “and and her heart” changed to “and her heart”.
• Page 194: “friendles sonly” changed to “friendless only”.
• Page 218-219: “childred” changed to “children”.
• Page 258: “coat-of arms” changed to “coat-of-arms”.
• Page 278: “Soup hop; fish hot;” changed to “Soup hot; fish hot;”.
• Page 297: “mingled wth” changed to “mingled with”.

The original chapter numbering has been retained, despite there being two chapters numbered “IV” in the “Fanny Ford” Story.