decay and renovation, undisturbed by the strife of the brief scene that has closed. Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by +Bradbury & Evans+, Whitefriars, London. Transcriber’s notes The original text is followed as much as possible. There are however some printing errors and inconsistencies in spelling that have been corrected. These are listed below. To represent formatting the following conventions are used: _word_ means that “word” is in italics; +word+ means that “word” is in small capitals. Corrections Page 26 “coal mine” in “the coal mine in which he held a share” and in “a third share he had in this coal mine” changed to “coal-mine”, as elsewhere in the text; Page 27 “Coal-fire” in “Now, then, old Coal-fire” changed to “Coal fire”, as elsewhere; Page 32 unmatched double quote behind “Many a one dies is——” replaced by single quote; Page 32 “and the very day at after we came” changed to “and the very day after we came”; Page 32 missing period added after “Thou ’rt a likely lad, and sure o’ work”; Page 33 unmatched double quote before “Ay, if it will come to me.” replaced by single quote; Page 35 doubling of “Park” in “and entered St. James’s Park Park” removed; Page 37 “Guinea Pig” in “When did _I_ ever tell the Guinea Pig” hyphenated, as elsewhere; Page 40 “ploughing match” in “I won a great ploughing match” hyphenated, as elsewhere; Page 40 missing opening quote added before “When I was seventeen”; Page 41 “threshing machine” in “They had been breaking Farmer Bullivant’s threshing machine” hyphenated, as elsewhere; Page 41 missing opening quote added before “Here was a blow;”; Page 42 closing quote removed behind “I refused point blank.”, as the speaker continues; Page 42 four asterisks interpreted as thought break; Page 43 “passage-money” in “with the passage-money of poor men’s relations” separated, as usual at the time of publication; Page 44 “burial places” in “great burial places from their chief cities” hyphenated, as elsewhere; Page 46 single closing quote behind “for Promoting the Practice of Decomposing the Dead by Fire.” replaced by double quote, to match the opening; Page 48 “the slaughter-attendant on an African funeral” changed to “the slaughter attendant on an African funeral”; Page 48 “Published at...Printed by” line combined into one; originally one was placed under the left column, the other under the right one.