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| Transcriber's Note: |
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| Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. |
| copyright on this publication was renewed. |
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| Ellipses in this text have been standardized. |
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| Punctuation in the verse, the use of upper or lower case for |
| "mom" and "pop", and occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation |
| and/or compound words where there existed no clear regular form |
| (e.g., "snow ball" and "snowball", "living-room" and "living |
| room") have been retained to match the original text. | |
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| Typographical errors and inconsistencies that have been changed |
| are listed below: |
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| Page 16: Changed comma to period (which said, _The Hoosier |
| Schoolmaster_.) |
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| Page 19: Changed "dilipidated" to "dilapidated" (their |
| dilapidated old unpainted house). |
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| Page 20: Changed "heart" to "hear" (I couldn't hear a word). |
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| Page 22: Changed "his" to "him" (I heard him mention my name). |
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| Page 26: Changed "Bumblee" to "Bumblebee" (at the bottom of |
| Bumblebee hill). |
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| Page 28: Changed "So-ond-So" to "So-and-So" (Why yes, Mrs. |
| So-and-So). |
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| Page 40: Moved punctuation inside quote marks to match style of |
| text (accusing me of doing, which is "dreaming."). |
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| Page 41: Changed "we" to "me" (to make me wait for my supper). |
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| Page 42: Removed duplicate word "and" (plant good seed in it, |
| and cultivate). |
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| Page 49: Changed "old Hook-nose" to "Old Hook-nosed" (such a |
| mean husband as Old Hook-nosed John Till). |
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| Page 51: Changed "bashful like" to "bashful-like" (into the box, |
| kinda bashful-like). |
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| Page 52: Changed "you" to "your" (and confess your sins). |
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| Page 56: Changed "ears" to "tears" (you can see the tears fly). |
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| Page 61: Changed "Spindle-legged" to "spindle-legged" (little |
| spindle-legged Dragonfly). |
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| Page 65: Added missing end punctuation (He's looking this way!). |
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| Page 68: Changed "day" to "way" (have been on my way down). |
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| Page 70: Changed "school house" to "schoolhouse" (on our side of |
| the schoolhouse). |
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| Page 75: Added alignment spaces to poem for consistency. |
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| Page 77: Changed "freckled-face" to "freckled face" (and my |
| freckled face and my rumpled red hair). |
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| Page 81: Changed comma to period (he was getting really angry.) |
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