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Obvious punctuation erors have been repaired.
There are a few pieces which contain some dialect. All dialect, period spelling, etc., has been preserved.
Typographical errors have been corrected.
p. 15: one instance of 'Snider' corrected to 'Snyder' for consistency.
p. 36: 'heayy' corrected to 'heavy' - "Poor Patrick toiled beneath his heavy load."
p. 36: 'hiltop' corrected to 'hilltop' - "A hilltop gained,..."
p. 47: 'tress' corrected to 'trees' - "from the straightest trees;"
p. 74: 'Abl,' corrected to 'Alb' - "_Alb._ Not once, yet."