TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Reading edition
Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The following changes have been made:
it ha blowed —> it ha’ blowed {page 20}
comman-place —> common-place {page 178}
Mrs. Banks —> Mrs. Bankes {page 246}
Advertising material “By the Same Author” has been moved to the end of the text.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of the chapter in which they occur.