WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Tish plays the game cover

Tish plays the game

Chapter 27: Transcriber’s Notes
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

A series of interlinked comic short stories follows an energetic, well-meaning woman whose charitable crusades and impulsive schemes produce domestic chaos and neighborhood misunderstandings. Presented by a close friend narrator, episodes move between eccentric household projects, playful deceptions, small-scale investigations, and social entanglements, blending warm observation with gentle satire of gossip and reform impulses. Recurring physical comedy and comic misreadings drive the action, while affectionate irony and conversational prose create a brisk, anecdotal structure that emphasizes character interplay and social manners over formal plotting.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation errors have been corrected.

Page 178: “the Cumminges” changed to “the Cummingses”

Page 202: “unforunate swerve” changed to “unfortunate swerve”, “unseen obstalce” changed to “unseen obstacle”

Page 252: “impossible to beleive” changed to “impossible to believe”

Page 256: “a sacred look” changed to “a scared look”

Page 269: “I thinks she’s” changed to “I think she’s”

Page 273-274: Some extraneous text was inserted after the paragraph ending “cookstove, do you?” and before the paragraph starting with “He caught me by the shoulder.” This extra text (“She’s right up in her room in bed. You don’t see me. “Not unless you’ve moved her.”) has been removed based on consultation of another copy of the book.