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Transcriber's Note:
Variations in the use of hyphens and alternative spelling have
been retained as they appear in the original except as in the
following changes:
Page 5 friendship for you. changed to
friendship for you,
12 and he was he was on his way changed to
and he was on his way
14 I should have have been somewhere changed to
I should have been somewhere
55 might he obliged to changed to
might be obliged to
88 thay may make it disagreeable changed to
they may make it disagreeable
146 in a box-buggy changed to
in a box buggy
151 his own propperty changed to
his own property
153 Hello! Helo-o-o! changed to
Hello! Hello-o-o!
156 A SOUVENIR OF THE THIEVES changed to
A SOUVENIR OF THE THIEVES.
180 call the case on of changed to
call the case one of
225 said Bob, and before changed to
said Bob, "and before
234 an hour bfore it changed to
an hour before it
238 this was followd by changed to
this was followed by
242 it was, prefering to changed to
it was, preferring to
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