Chapter 15:

Page 170: Change period to question mark in How's Mrs. Brown. In the

short story Lucretia Burns from Prarie Folks and Other Main Traveled

Roads, Garland wrote How is Mrs. Burns! where a question mark seemed

appropriate. When the short story first appeared in the earlier edition

of Prarie Folks, there was a question mark after Burns. Garland changed

the punctuation for the later release of Prarie Folks. The implication

is that the tone of the speaker may override what is said in determining

the punctuation. Or maybe Garland just made an error, both there and

here. We treated the period on Page 170 as errata and changed the text.

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