This transcription is based on images digitized by Google from a copy
made available by the Ohio State University and posted by the
HathiTrust at:
catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100593073
Because a few page scans had text cut off next to the margin, this
transcription has been compared with the text posted by the Victorian
Plays Project at:
victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/assets/docs/pdf/Vol24xivTwice.pdf
In general, this transcription attempts to retain the punctuation and
spelling of the source text. Variant spellings have been retained,
including "calender," "terrestial," "accomodation," and "dosing" (for
"dozing"), as have inconsistent spellings such as "lattitude" and
"latitude." Obvious errors have been corrected. The use of "its" and
"it's" has been made consistent.
The following changes were noted:
- Frontispiece: The punctuation of the caption text has been made
consistent with the script text.
- p. 3: though it's utility exceeds it's beauty--Changed "it's" to
"its" in both cases.
- p. 5: its very unkind of you--Changed "its" to "it's".
- p. 6: "X plus Y. equal to--"--Deleted the period after "Y".
- p. 8: [_MEN do so and exeunt., L. H._--Deleted the period after
"_exeunt_".
- p. 13: FANNY. (_screams,_) Oh!--Changed the comma after "_screams_"
to a period.
- p. 14: I was rowing past a quarter of ah hour ago.--Changed "ah" to
"an".
- p. 17: Mr. Feargus Fable, my old friend's son, will be here in a
minute--Changed "Feargus" to "Fergus" for consistency.
- p. 17: what is the lattitude of Petersburgh.--Changed the period
after "Petersburgh" to a question mark.
- p. 20: Careless slut, what did you drop the tray for:--Changed the
colon after "for" to a question mark.
- p. 21: always happy to see you, you know--Inserted a period after
"you know".
- p. 21: I must sit up rather rate, to finish a job--Changed "rate" to
"late".
- p. 24: TOM., FAN., MRS. F., EUC., JULIA., RECK., HOLD.,
FAB.--Deleted the period after "JULIA".