Ch 2: Change oak to oaks in THE DINNER UNDER THE OAKS. Ch 4: Add Bradley's to BRADLEY'S TRIALS AT SCHOOL. Ch 8: Change attacks to offends in BRADLEY OFFENDS NETTIE'S FATHER. Ch 14: Change his politics to BRADLEY CHANGES HIS POLITICAL VIEWS. Ch 18: Add quotes to "DON'T BLOW OUT THE GAS." Ch 30: Change The great round-up at Chiquita to THE GREAT ROUND UP. Ch 32: Remove Washington again from CONCLUSION. Chapter 1 Page 10: In the paragraph beginning with You may talk about legislative corruption, these are several double quotes inside of double quotes. These were changed to single quotes, just like a similarly-structured paragraph on page 61: • "Now you're getting at it," • "That's right," • "That's a fact." Chapter 5 Page 61: Remove double quote after ('Oh, go roam the wild wood.') Chapter 7: Page 88: The call has a lead quote in the body of the message and no ending quote. One way to resolve is to use quotes similar to the way Ida's first letter to Bradley is presented, on Page 157. Another way is to remove the leading quote and present the letter like Bradley's letter to Ida on Page 308. The latter solution seemed like the way to go. Page 88: Change All the samee to All the same. Page 90: Change to Contrary minds, "No! It's a vote." The speaker is contrary minds, and what is spoken is surrounded by matched quotes. The original text had a single quote instead of a double quote before No, and did not have a comma. Chapter 10: Page 111: Add missing period after career. Chapter 15: Page 170: Change period to question mark in How's Mrs. Brown. In the short story Lucretia Burns from Prarie Folks and Other Main Traveled Roads, Garland wrote How is Mrs. Burns! where a question mark seemed appropriate. When the short story first appeared in the earlier edition of Prarie Folks, there was a question mark after Burns. Garland changed the punctuation for the later release of Prarie Folks. The implication is that the tone of the speaker may override what is said in determining the punctuation. Or maybe Garland just made an error, both there and here. We treated the period on Page 170 as errata and changed the text. Chapter 16: Page 189: Text has a space between campaign 'll, and this was retained. Page 194: Change or to of in and the question or reducing the surplus in the treasury. Page 194: there is space for an apostrophe between we ll in the sentence If he does, all is we ll have to build a party up to his principle, for he'll be right, Colonel; there's no two ways about that. We put in the apostrophe. Chapter 21: Page 245: Remove closing quote after replied in "... Paris," she replied. Chapter 24: Page 278: Change your're to you're in And so your're a congressman, Talcott? Chapter 28: Page 322: Text has a space between Lord 'll, and this was retained. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Spoil of Office, by Hamlin Garland