Mississippi River Valley -- Fiction; Short stories; Western stories
On Page 120, barn-yard is hyphenated and split between two lines for
spacing. In the same short story, barn-yard is hyphenated on Page 124 in
the middle of the line. However, barnyard is spelled without the hyphen
on Page 78, also in the same short story. Barnyard is spelled without a
hyphen on Page 213 and on Page 249. We went with the majority and spelled
barnyard without a hyphen here, which makes the item on page 124 the sole
outlier.
On Page 124, barn-door is hyphenated and split between two lines for
spacing. There are no other occurrences of the word in this book. We
transcribed barn-door, with the hyphen, mainly because barn-yard is
spelled with a hyphen on the same page.
On Page 124, horse-trough is hyphenated and split between two lines for
spacing. Horse-trough also occurs on page 185 and 291, with the hyphen,
so it was retained here as well.
Return of a Private
On Page 173-Page 174, we added a missing quote before but in the
paragraph:
"They called that coffee Jayvy," grumbled one of them, "but it never went
by the road where government Jayvy resides. I reckon I know coffee from
peas."
On Page 182, remove me from Gimme me a kiss!
Under the Lion's Paw
On Page 204, some-buddy was hyphenated and split between two lines for
spacing. There is no other usage of somebuddy, but anybuddy and nobuddy
can be found in the same short story. Therefore, we transcribed somebuddy
without the hyphen.
On Page 216, we added a closing quote following the period after rest:
"But I don't take it," said Butler, coolly. "All you've got to do is to
go on jest as you've been a-doin', or give me a thousand dollars down,
and a mortgage at ten per cent on the rest."
Mrs. Ripley's Trip
On Page 277, flustrated is some cross between flustered and frustrated,
and given it is used in dialect, perhaps this is some midwest variation
of one of the two words. Therefore, we left the following sentence as is:
I guess she kind a' sort a' forgot it, bein' so flustrated, y' know.
Uncle Ethan Ripley
On Page 289, sick'-nin' is hyphenated and split between two lines for
spacing. We transcribed the word without the hyphen: Nobuddy'll buy that
sick'nin' stuff but an old numskull like you.
God's Raven
The convention in this story and in the next one was to spell it 'll with
a space, but in the earlier short stories, the contraction was spelled
it'll. We retained this inconsistency.
On Page 308, there is a triple-nested quote. The book uses a
double-quote for the first quote, a single quote for the second, and a
double quote for the third quote. This will cause a problem with our
error-checking mechanism. We have also used a single quote for the third
quote.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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