TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Sydney Seymour Lucas provided the illustrations.
This book was published as May Margaret, called “the fair maid of Galloway” the same year in the US.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. contrarywise/contrariwise, homecoming/home-coming, water-meadows/water meadows, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Convert footnotes to endnotes.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, and add a few missing periods.
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