s fault that one sees, outside the doors where the chaluts dry
in the baskets, so many women wearing the black caps of widows.

[Illustration]

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Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistencies in names between the body text and illustration
captions--Zarius/Zaira, Pyerhus/Pyrrhus, Gissing's/Genseigne's,
hydrangea/hortensia--have been retained as they appear in the
original publication.

Changes have been made as follows:

Page 2

exploring for the hundreth _changed to_
exploring for the hundredth

Page 6

but Fanny stoood _changed to_
but Fanny stood

Page 12

And you, Emmaline Capel, if I _changed to_
And you, Emmeline Capel, if I

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Full stop added to the end of the caption,
THEIR HEADS SO ERECT.

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would be more suprised _changed to_
would be more surprised

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"A flower should smell good" And _changed to_
"A flower should smell good." And

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and sees the more terrible _changed to_
and seems the more terrible

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Full stop added to the end of the caption,
OLDER BROTHERS AND FATHERS.

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