CHAPTER I. SAUSAGES AND PALAVER—II. ILLUMINATION—III. WILLIAM

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CONTENTS

THE BRIDGEBUILDERS—A WALKING DELEGATE—THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF—THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS—THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA—WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR—·007—THE MALTESE CAT—BREAD UPON THE WATERS—AN ERROR OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION—MY SUNDAY AT HOME—THE BRUSHWOOD BOY

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Transcriber’s note:

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected.

The following issues should be noted. There were a number of confusions about nested quotation marks, which have been addressed to ease the reading experience. Where the author’s intent is unclear, the text is retained.

Errors of punctuation in the advertisement section at the end of the text were corrected, silently, in the interest of consistency.

p. 5 intercour[es/se] Transposed.

p. 41 [‘]Well, I don’t deny Added.

p. 74 [‘]Quite right, Dick; Added.

p. 94 and considerable[./,] Mick and his sons Corrected.

p. 99 ‘Ladies and gentlemen!’ he shouted[.] Added.

p. 109 the English thoroughbred.[’] Added.

p. 116 labouring up and [and] glanced Removed.

p. 118 Dick [road/rode] up straight Corrected.

p. 147 about one another,[’] Added.

p. 178 licks [’]im Added.

p. 206 Fred Churbett out of [of] his bed Removed.

p. 224 villians _sic._

p. 225 [“]if we meet any Added.

back you go to the barracks[’/”] Corrected.

[‘]They’d take me ... and free from Added. trouble,”[’]

p. 227 'What a tragedy!['] Added.

p. 232 any other[ other] part Removed.

p. 252 [‘]I like forest Added.

p. 269 compressd _sic._

p. 275 I see it in your face[.] Added.

p. 287 wild-f[l]owl Removed.

p. 298 he became a finder of continents.[’] Added.

p. 310 [‘]You will enjoy Added.

Hu[r]bert Removed.

p. 313 Gera[r/l]d Corrected.

p. 315 my dear boy[,/.] Corrected.

p. 318 but the old who die![’] Removed.

p. 367 home at last——[”/’] Corrected.

Hu[r]bert Removed.

p. 373 well-featured, manly[.] Added.

p. 419 But some[w]how Removed.