Page 26 “coal mine” in “the coal mine in which he held a share” and in
“a third share he had in this coal mine” changed to
“coal-mine”, as elsewhere in the text;
Page 27 “Coal-fire” in “Now, then, old Coal-fire” changed to
“Coal fire”, as elsewhere;
Page 32 unmatched double quote behind “Many a one dies is——” replaced
by single quote;
Page 32 “and the very day at after we came” changed to “and the very
day after we came”;
Page 32 missing period added after “Thou ’rt a likely lad, and sure o’
work”;
Page 33 unmatched double quote before “Ay, if it will come to me.”
replaced by single quote;
Page 35 doubling of “Park” in “and entered St. James’s Park Park”
removed;
Page 37 “Guinea Pig” in “When did _I_ ever tell the Guinea Pig”
hyphenated, as elsewhere;
Page 40 “ploughing match” in “I won a great ploughing match”
hyphenated, as elsewhere;
Page 40 missing opening quote added before “When I was seventeen”;
Page 41 “threshing machine” in “They had been breaking Farmer
Bullivant’s threshing machine” hyphenated, as elsewhere;
Page 41 missing opening quote added before “Here was a blow;”;
Page 42 closing quote removed behind “I refused point blank.”, as the
speaker continues;
Page 42 four asterisks interpreted as thought break;
Page 43 “passage-money” in “with the passage-money of poor men’s
relations” separated, as usual at the time of publication;
Page 44 “burial places” in “great burial places from their chief
cities” hyphenated, as elsewhere;
Page 46 single closing quote behind “for Promoting the Practice of
Decomposing the Dead by Fire.” replaced by double quote, to
match the opening;
Page 48 “the slaughter-attendant on an African funeral” changed to “the
slaughter attendant on an African funeral”;
Page 48 “Published at...Printed by” line combined into one; originally
one was placed under the left column, the other under the right
one.