1. Italic text in the original is delimited by underscores. 2. Bold text in the original is delimited by equals signs. 3. Footnotes originally appearing at the bottom of a given page have been moved to directly below the paragraph in which they appear. 4. Footnote 6 is missing “—_Translator’s Note_”, unlike the rest of the footnotes in the main text. 5. Hyphenated words were silently joined across lines and pages when the intended word was clear. 6. The following table notes the other material changes made to the printed text, in order to correct apparent printing errors (punctuation, spelling, quotation marks, repeated words), and to standardize spelling and hyphenation for identical words to the more common usage across all four volumes. Changes are denoted in [brackets]. =Page= =Text= =Operation= 9 we shall have a snow[-]storm Removed 11 injury was a[s] fresh Added 13 his father’s out[-]houses, even the Removed 17 like huge mole[-]hills, straggling Removed 30 putting up a saw[-]mill here Removed 49 past[-]masters Removed 49 He filled [with/the] whole place Replaced 51 of the o[[Space]/t]her, secretly Replaced 56 sell all our live[-]stock. So Removed 57 tea[-]time Removed 61 such a bare[-]faced lie? Removed 64 then a hail[-]storm of Removed 67 But the saw[-]mill must go Removed 68 in ice[-]bound stillness Removed 68 was tufted with hoar[-]frost Removed 72 like a beet[-]root, and fumbled Removed 73 on an u[n]pleasant subject Added 77 if over[-]sprinkled with Removed 79 of sour beet[-]root soup, with Removed 84 stones, water[-]drops, clods, Removed 84 to chop fire[-]wood against Removed 85 the che[e/r]ry-orchards in blossom Replaced 89 for head[-]gear caps Removed 100 “But,” Nas[t]ka cried, “wherefore Added 115 when my good[-]man had Removed 132 axes at the saw[-]mill, some Removed 132 him of the saw[-]mill Removed 134 Bartek of the saw[-]mill, with Removed 138 of the saw[-]mill and his people Removed 142 of the saw[-]mill, and he went Removed 154 to the hay[-]rick. Of Removed 154 to the hayrick.[[New Paragraph]]Of Added 161 my catechism and [b/m]y primer! Replaced