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Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation errors repaired.
Front advertising section, "For 10 Cents", "Samples" changed to
"Sample" (Sampy copy and a set of)
Page 138, "bnried" changed to "buried" (his face buried in the)
Page 149, "disdianful" changed to "disdainful" (whispered, and sent
disdainful)
Page 150, "too" changed to "to" (appealed to with a pleasant)
Page 150, "partie" changed to "parities" (nightgown to wear to parties)
Page 159, "where" changed to "were" (where stores were)
Page 159, "foom" changed to "from" (wood from the box)
Page 162, "thoHght" changed to "thought" (might be thought to be)
Page 165, "niether" changed to "neither" (neither go forward nor)
Page 5, advertisements, "Pepy's" changed to "Pepys'" (Mr. Pepys'
Valentine)
Page 5, advertisements, "Tunrcoat" changed to "Turncoat" (A
Revolutionary Turncoat)
Page 5, advertisements, "VI" changed to "IV." (IV. Some Italian Authors)
Page 5, advertisements, "By" changed to "by" (by Anna Katherine Greene)
End of Project Gutenberg's The Pansy Magazine, March 1886, by Various