Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been retained. Differences in chapter titles between the table of contents and individual chapter headings for Chapters V, X, XV, XVIII, XXI, XXVI, and XXVII are preserved here.
The following apparent typographical errors were corrected:
Page 86, “villge” changed to “village.” (before anyone else in the village was born)
Page 126, “firtree” changed to “fir tree.” (sticks and pieces of dried fir tree wood)
Page 127, “it” changed to “if.” (if she did not want to use them all)