Chapter 15:
Reading edition
Page 170: Change period to question mark in How's Mrs. Brown. In the short story Lucretia Burns from Prarie Folks and Other Main Traveled Roads, Garland wrote How is Mrs. Burns! where a question mark seemed appropriate. When the short story first appeared in the earlier edition of Prarie Folks, there was a question mark after Burns. Garland changed the punctuation for the later release of Prarie Folks. The implication is that the tone of the speaker may override what is said in determining the punctuation. Or maybe Garland just made an error, both there and here. We treated the period on Page 170 as errata and changed the text.