Transcriber's Note
Reading edition
Punctuation and formatting markup have been normalized.
Apparent printer's errors have been retained, unless stated below.
Page numbers cited in illustration captions refer to their discussion in the text. Illustrations have been moved near their mention in the text, which has, in some instances, affected page numbering
Page numbers have also been affected by the omission of blank pages.
Page 21, "gray" changed to "grey" for consistency. (...rich and poor, white, black and grey,—everybody was more or less seriously affected by this curious epidemic.)
Page 60, "anexed" changed to "annexed". (In the addenda to my Report (above named) there appeared the annexed statement, by somebody:)
Page 88, "H.B.M." changed to "H.R.M." (Her Royal Majesty) for consistency. (From Hon. Col. Phipps, H.R.M. Secretary.)
Page 116, "oustrip" changed to "outstrip". (At this time there was found an ambitious individual, occasionally, who got "ahead of his time," and whose laudable efforts to outstrip his neighbors were only checked by the natural results of his own superior "progressive" notions)
Page 153, "millenium" changed to "millennium". ("Fanny" went into New York State, crowing when she left, crowing as she went, and continuing to crow until she crowed the community there clear through the next fourth o' July, out into the fabled millennium.)
Page 162, "@" changed to "or". (The prices for chickens ranged from $12 or $15 a pair, to $25 or $30, and often $40 to $50, a pair.)