Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation 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; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.
The original mid-paragraph positions of Illustrations have been retained in this eBook, as they often are crucial to understanding the explanations.
The original Table of Contents used “ib.” for page numbers that were the same as the preceding number, but this eBook uses the actual numbers.
Page 42: “then put the” was printed as “then pu- the”. It has been changed to “put” to be consistent with “put out the sixpence” at the end of the same paragraph. Both probably should be “pull”.
Page 61: “grove” was printed that way.
Page 68: Transcriber added “turn” to “turn the perfect colour of sack wine”.
Page 70: “mattrass” was printed that way.
Page 75: “griping” was printed that way.
The bottom of the image of a bottle on page 76 was cut-off in the original book.