Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Text uses both “chesnut” and “chestnut”; both retained here.
Some illustrations intertwined with the text. That appearance has
been followed in versions of this eBook capable of such visual
presentations; in other versions, the illustrations precede the text.
However, when the illustration included the first letter of the first
word of a chapter, that letter has been repeated here as part of the
text.