Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Marriage -- Fiction; Single women -- Fiction
Some corrections were made to quotation marks. Some of the use
of quotation marks was not consistent with current standards, but was
internally consistent and left unchanged. Some unpaired quotation marks
and an unpaired parenthesis mark were left as-is.
On the title page, a quotation mark was added before "THE BACHELOR'S
CLUB".
On page 17, "thy" was replaced with "they".
On page 20, a single quotation mark is replaced with a double quotation
mark.
On page 23, a double quotation mark was added after "What do men think?"
On page 25, a period was added after "Here is her photograph".
On page 27, "repectable" was replaced with "respectable".
On page 54, "promonitory" was replaced with "promontory".
On page 56, the comma after "I laughed" was replaced with a period.
On page 60, the comma after "blank expression" was deleted.
On page 72, a double quotation mark was added before "The plurality is
merely apparent."
On page 88, "æronaut" was replaced with "aeronaut".
On page 99, a comma was added after "(which is easy)".
On page 103, "did no" was replaced with "did not".
On page 111, the comma after "I love you was replaced with a period.
On page 112, a quotation mark was removed after "then silence any
more?".
On page 119, a closing single quotation mark was added after "the
epileptoid order".
On page 120, a period was removed after "Mr. and".
On page 124, a quotation mark was added after "only real life.".
On page 124, "The past was put" was replaced with "The past was but".
On page 127, "abut" was replaced with "about".
On page 136, the double quotation marks around "tag" were replaced with
single quotation marks.
On page 138, double quotation marks were replaced with single quotation
marks around "Now you see what I have had to put up with."
In the caption of the illustration that originally was on page 145,
"Advertsement" was replaced with "Advertisement".
On page 157, a quotation mark was added before "You know I don't".
On page 176, "might" was replaced with "night".
On page 186, a quotation mark was added after "those of the
photograph.".
On page 200, a comma was added after "Eleven Weekly Papers".
On page 242, a period was added after "rehearsal".
On page 244, "Miss Jacks" was replaced with "Miss Jack".
On page 244, a comma was removed after "conventional".
On page 253, "onomatopoeiac" was replaced with "onomatopoeic".
On page 261, a quotation mark was added before "Sybil's reply".
On page 264, "decend" was replaced with "descend".
On page 272, "then" was replaced with "them".
On page 276, a quotation mark was added after "in Fleet Street.".
On page 280, "well" was replaced with "will".
On page 280, a quotation mark was removed before "Years afterwards".
On page 288, "I no not" was replaced with "I do not".
On page 289, a period was after "become an Old Maid".
On page 299, the double quotation after "I had left my little all." was
changed to a single quotation mark.
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