Transcriber’s Note

This transcription in based on the text of 1919 edition published by

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. However, the following are believed to be

unambiguous errors in the text, and have been corrected:

* “climbin” was changed to “climbing” (Chapter I).

* “Pusely Smythe” was changed to “Pusely-Smythe” (Chapter VII).

* Two misspellings of “_The Pig-Keepers’ Friend_” were corrected.

* Seven occurrences of mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.

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