Prairie Folks :: Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber's Notes

Hamlin Garland

In 1899, Garland published a revised edition of Prairie Folks with many changes:

The short stories Saturday Night on the Farm and Uncle Ethan's Speculation were omitted from the 1899 edition.
The short stories Aidgewise Feelings, Black Ephram, and The Wapseypinnicon Tiger were added to the 1899 edition.
The order of Elder Pill and Bacon's Man were switched; some parts of Elder Pill were modified to make the story appear as if it was written after Bacon's Man. These alterations involved changed dialogue and the revision of scenes involving Mrs. Bacon and Merry Etty.
A page or more of verse was added between each story.
Some tinkering was done with the title and text of the rest of the short stories.

Notes:

The following alternate spellings of words or phrases were found in the text:

every which-way (page 51);
every-which-way (page 91).
checkerboard (page 180);
checker-board (pages 169, 172)

On page 132, change faught to fought.

On page 138, 'Just goin' the same thing right over,' might sound better replacing doin' with goin' but Garland used goin'.

On page 156, transcribe forehead without the hyphen (see pages 16, 42, and 102).

On page 188, transcribe new-comer with the hyphen (see page 21).

On page 191, transcribe doorway without the hyphen (see pages 14 and 143).

On page 235, transcribe pom-pom pullaway without the hyphen in pullaway (see page 244).

On page 237, transcribe barnyard without the hyphen (see pages 36 and 91).

On page 246, place left quote before my hands are cold in the sentence: "Can't do it," he laughed; "my hands are cold. Got to warm them, see?"

On page 248, remove quote after Gilman in the clause "through the door came the great form and golden head of Lime Gilman."

Several words hyphenated and split between two lines for spacing could be spelled with the hyphen or not: night-gown (page 27), meal-time (page 80), and jacka-napes (page 216).

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