TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
Repeated instances of the title in the front of the book have been reduced.
Punctuation has been normalized. Variations in hyphenation have been retained as they were in the original publication. The following assumed printer’s errors were corrected:
look at the stars and breath —> breathe {Page 24}
Halsey City to the ’port —> port {Page 29}
were ready to quit Oldhan —> Oldham {Page 31}
short of meccano-toy —> sort {Page 96}
O.8952, —> 0.8952, {Page 109}
Trouble is, he’s too Jonesfearing. —> Jones-fearing {Page 118}