Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
Chapter 16
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Illustrations:
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Cover pic01.jpg Off Shore pic03.jpg A Plucky Girl pic07.jpg A Perilous Ride pic14.jpg The Purple Pennant (decorative title) pic15.jpg The Mutiny on Board of the Sea Eagle pic11.jpg Civil Engineering in the Tropics pic18.png
Layout of Advertising Pages:
inside front:
+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ | Sapolio | Aermotor | Ayer's | +---------------+---------------+ | Sarsaparilla | |(testimonials) | FREE! +---------------+ | // // // // // | +---------------+ Stamps | | | |(testimonials) | | | |(testimonials) +---------------+---------------+ | | | Pitcher's Castoria | Deaf ... | +---------------+-------------------------------+---------------+
inside back:
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back cover:
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Errata (noted by transcriber)
Missing or incorrect punctuation was silently corrected. Typographical errors in the advertising sections were left unchanged; those in the main text were corrected. Both are noted here. The "cents" symbol was not used; prices use the simple letter "c".
Advertising, Front Section:
(For Clerk No. 14 ) [_space in original, as if number was inserted later_] *CANCER* and Tumors ... Book free. 163 Elm St. [_printing unclear: possibly 168_]
Off Shore
but the reason therefor was unknown [_"therefor" is not an error_] Mr. Noman had contented himself [Norman]
Big Fishes
sent the man eater adrift [_printing unclear: possibly "man-eater"_]
Puzzledom
No. 3. Eve r [_spaced as shown_]
Slides for the Magic Lantern
and to facilitate this [faciliate]
A Plucky Girl
he dared not descend to the ground, because, the wolves might attack [_commas as printed_]
Ephraim Clark
Eric Ericcsson was transferred as a private [_spelling of name unchanged: earlier parts of serial unavailable for comparison_]
Condensed Food
a handful of maccaroni [_spelling unchanged_] condensed by desiccation [dessication]
The Mutiny
it will give me an opportunity [me give]
A Perilous Ride
three-fourths of an inch thick, and seven in height [heighth] a little shooting on my own account on the way. [_comma for period_] while the Esquimaux were running about [_text unchanged: error for "See-ne-mee-utes"?_]
The Purple Pennant
who could scarcely believe that the news [belive] busily examining a heterogenous mass of papers [_text unchanged: probably error for unrelated word "heterogeneous"_] steadily dropping from the high place, he once held [_comma in original_]
A Quarrel
fishing-pole in hand [in had]
Replies to Correspondents
neither increased or diminished [_error for "nor"?_] Alaska is _terra incognito_ [_unchanged: error for "incognita"_]
Advertising, End
This volume will be sent to my address [_unchanged: error for "any address"_]
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