Spacing of contractions in dialect (e.g. he 'll, you 've, there 's) has been retained and regularized. These were printed as half-spaces in the original book. Spaces in two part contractions (e.g. could n't, had n't, sha' n't) have also been retained. However, ain't, 'ain't, don't, can't, wa'n't, and won't were all consistently printed without spaces, and appear that way in this e-book. A few minor errors were corrected: 1. "colored" to "coloured" (p. 53:"coloured with ars'nic"--"ou" spellings were used everywhere else in the original book except the advertisements in the back.) 2. "skirk" to "shirk" (p. 146: "I ain't a-goin' to shirk it") 3. "jest deserts" to "jest desserts" (p. 190) 4. "afeard" to "afeared" (p. 243: "I 'm afeared I 'd 'a' clean furgot") One oe-ligature has been changed to oe (p. 58: "a young homoeopathic doctor").