Standardized hyphenation to the dominant style used within the
book.
The Preface in the original book was printed in italic with titles
in roman text--this has been reversed in this version of the eBook.
Spelling, punctuation, accents, and grammar have been preserved as
printed in the original publication except as follows:
1. Page 35: Changed pronoun from “she” to “he” referring to Tiny:
“That he had not long ago been crushed to death by the others must
remain an insoluble mystery!”
2. Page 54: Changed . to , after “of course”: “He must be carried,
of course, ... and the problem is to find a hold which will not destroy
the creature.”
3. Page 75: Changed the word “breath” to “breathe” in this phrase: “she
still finds a little air to breathe”.
4. Page 87: Changed the word “mowing” to “mewing” in this phrase:
“Tears of pain spring to his eyes as he recoils, mewing piteously”.
5. Page 104: Changed “it” to “if” in this phrase: “his victim sat
waiting as if put there for him by the Creator”.
6. Page 122: Changed “Big-puss” to “Big Puss” for consistency as used
throughout the book.
7. Page 145: Changed the word “occurence” to “occurrence” in this
phrase: “Grey Puss pondered a while over the occurrence”.
8. Page 171: Changed “his” to “this” in this sentence: “Black, however,
knows nothing of this.”
9. Page 183: Removed duplicate “for” from this phrase: “fled for
his life.”
10. Page 195: Changed ending quotation of “Madness’ to “Madness” for
consistency with other names.
11. Page 201: Changed pronoun from “his” to “her” referring to red
kitten: “with the pork chop in her jaws.”