1. Many contractions which would normally be printed together in their
shortened form are left spaced, as printed. Sometimes this is done
due to the meter of the poem. Other times it is just the older way that
printers handled these words. The original was not always consistent
about how these were handled, and may have been contracted to save
space.
2. Since this book has a significant amount of dialect, no attempt was
made to change any odd spellings. Some of these words are not easy to
_translate_, but usually the context will be sufficient. For instance,
the word _stuhs_ means stirs, as, 'dat melody stuhs me up'.