Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. When words in quoted text are spelled differently than elsewhere, those spellings have been retained. Old-style and dialect spellings have been retained.

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 18: Likely spurious opening quotation mark removed just before “till they were nearer France”.

Page 24: A period may be missing after “I’ll carry my ball to Calais Green”.

Page 52: Closing quotation mark added after “laying-to in open day.” This may not be where it belongs.

Page 61: Missing right-parenthesis added after “before his death”.

Page 62: “10ll” is followed by an explanation that the two els mean “pounds”; the same notation is used for “8ll” on page 63.

Page 240: “philanthrophy” was printed that way.