TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
John Trevena was a pseudonym used by Ernest George Henham.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. folk-lore/folk lore, tiptoe/tip-toe, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: correct some quotation mark pairings/nestings, and missing periods and commas.
Place the footnote at the beginning of Chapter XXV inline with the text.
[Chapter V]
Change “and his son ’ll be Willum” to son’ll.
[Chapter XII]
(Why, twould kill me,’ is what they say) to ’twould.
[Chapter XV]
(“Its easy to see you never had a Cornish nurse) to It’s.
[Chapter XIX]
(“Nine,” she mumured with a gasp of mirth) murmured.
[Chapter XXIII]
“There were castles embattled with hugh archways” to huge.
[End of text]