Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Text uses both “chesnut” and “chestnut”; both retained here.
Some illustrations intertwined with the text. That appearance has been followed in versions of this eBook capable of such visual presentations; in other versions, the illustrations precede the text. However, when the illustration included the first letter of the first word of a chapter, that letter has been repeated here as part of the text.