The Art of Kissing: Curiously, Historically, Humorously, Poetically Considered
Part 6
A Hundred Ways of Kissing Girls;
Or, HISTORY OF THE KISS.
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Transcriber’s note:
The format of the chapter sub-headings has been regularised.
Page 3, ‘back’ changed to ‘black,’ “kiss the sacred black stone”
Page 4, ‘Origin’ changed to ‘Origen,’ “Origen, one of the early”
Page 4, ‘suspicious’ changed to ‘suspicions,’ “foul suspicions and evil reports”
Page 4, full stops inserted after book numbers, “I. Cor. xvi, 20; I. Pet. v, 14”
Page 5, full stop inserted after book number, “II. Samuel xiv, 33”
Page 5, full stop changed to comma after paragraph number, “II. Samuel xiv, 33”
Page 5, full stop inserted after book number, “I. Kings xix, 18.”
Page 5, full stop inserted after ‘Treachery,’ “Treachery.—Now he that betrayed him”
Page 13, ‘ingenius’ changed to ‘ingenious,’ “An ingenious American grammarian”
Page 15, double quote deleted after ‘out,’ “altogether too long drawn out.”
Page 16, full stop changed to comma after ‘back,’ “diagonally down across her back,”
Page 16-17, ‘shootng’ changed to ‘shooting,’ “were firing off shooting”
Page 18, ‘guaged’ changed to ‘gauged,’ “must be carefully gauged”
Page 26, full stop changed to comma after ‘make,’ “all life’s shadows make,”
Page 26, full stop changed to comma after ‘lighter,’ “My burdens lighter, and”
Page 28, full stop inserted after ‘Manual,’ “and the Sarum Manual.”
Page 60, double quote deleted after ‘won,’ “brides were ever won.”
Page 72, ‘a-la-mode Francoise’ changed to ‘à-la-mode Françoise,’ “him à-la-mode Françoise, and kissed him on”
Page 103, ‘stop’ changed to ‘stops,’ “stops here. As a conclusion”
Back cover, colon changed to semicolon following ‘Jokes,’ “Kissing Jokes; A Black Kiss;”