Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Examples include "vandue" and "vendue", "Cahoky" and "Cahooky", "infare and "infair", and "Pettingil and Pettengill."

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

On page 126, "Champaign squibs" should possibly be "Campaign squibs."

On page 225, the sentence '"You weigh about seventy-five pounds,"gravely.' seems to be missing some text.