Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Spelling of dialect words not changed.

Page 1: Transcriber added chapter number (“I”) to the heading, for consistency with the rest of the book, and deleted the redundant hemi-title.