Transcriber’s Note
Reading edition
This transcription in based on the text of 1919 edition published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. However, the following are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text, and have been corrected:
“climbin” was changed to “climbing” (Chapter I).
“Pusely Smythe” was changed to “Pusely-Smythe” (Chapter VII).
Two misspellings of “The Pig-Keepers’ Friend” were corrected.
Seven occurrences of mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.