Trolley Folly

Chapter 14: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A series of comic short stories follows Jimmie Horgan, a careless but resourceful trolley controller whose blunders and schemes set off a chain of misadventures. Episodes include an unexpected inheritance, the mysterious disappearance of a trolley car, and other small-town capers involving a mascot, a numismatist, a canoe outing, and social rivalries. The tales sketch eccentric local characters and satirize pretension through slapstick situations and ironic reversals of fortune. Narrative voice pairs brisk scene-setting with wry observation to reveal how luck, reputation, and appearances shape everyday life.

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.

Spelling of dialect words not changed.

Page 1: Transcriber added chapter number (“I”) to the heading, for consistency with the rest of the book, and deleted the redundant hemi-title.