------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ Unbalanced quotation marks were left as the author intended. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ On page 7 of the printed book, spaced characters were used to emphasize the word “peaceful.” In the electronic versions, italics were used instead. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed in underscores (_italics_). End of Project Gutenberg's Minerva's Manoeuvres, by Charles Battell Loomis