Words in _italics_ are marked with underscores.
Words in smallcaps are shown in UPPERCASE.
The description of the frontispiece, shown in braces is the
transcriber’s own.
Archaic spellings have been retained; as have some non-standard
spellings, where they either occur several times, or were common at the
date the book was written.
Missing punctuation has been silently inserted, as have missing spaces
between words.
Misplaced punctuation has been silently moved.
Commas at the end of paragraphs have been changed to full stops.
There were several instances of the last word of a line being repeated
at the start of the next. The repeated words have been removed.
Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.
Tangible typographic errors have been corrected silently.
Other changes that have been made are:
Page 33: In ‘he would not have said a word about what passed in the
field’ “passed” was printed “pas-” at the end of a line.
In the list of books at the end of this book, in “23 _The Wonders of
the Horse_ ... By JOSEPH TAYLOR” the author’s surname was originally
not shown in smallcaps.