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● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Music files have been provided for the song presented in Chapter XVIII, “Here Sir.” If your browser supports it, clicking on the MP3 link will play the music; clicking on the MIDI link may open a program that can play MIDI files; or it may just download the MIDI file to your computer. ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).