Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). The original text does not contain a Table of Contents. The Table of Contents included near the beginnning of this file was created by the transcriber as an aid for the reader. The following misprints have been corrected: "calvary" corrected to "cavalry" (page 8) "Foso" corrected to "Fonso" (page 22) "Ragland" corrected to "Raglan" (page 30) "Biersan" corrected to "Bersan" (page 37) "that" corrected to "than" (page 37) "cencert" corrected to "concert" (page 43) missing "and" added (page 44) "oustretched" corrected to "outstretched" (page 52) "three-yeor-old" corrected to "three-year-old" (page 57) "companians" corrected to "companions" (page 62) "Sheck" corrected to "Scheck" (page 80) "than" corrected to "then" (page 86) "pass" corrected to "past" (page 94) "gotton" corrected to "gotten" (page 95) "Banbridge's" corrected to "Banridge's" (page 96) "Kentucy" corrected to "Kentucky" (page 99) "viens" corrected to "veins" (page 102) "sixteeth" corrected to "sixteenth" (page 104) "nack" corrected to "neck" (page 108) "Buxon" corrected to "Buxton" (page 110) "far" corrected to "for" (page 116) "frunished" corrected to "furnished" (page 117) The mismatched parenthesis on page 10 is presented as in the original. Otherwise, punctuation errors have been corrected without note. Other than the corrections listed above, inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained.