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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 125, word "the" was inserted into the text (out of the window)

Page 188, "year" changed to "years" (for thirty years)

Page 226, "bother" changed to "bother" (want to bother her)

Page 268, "scimetar" changed to "scimitar" (a scimitar in a)

The asterism on used on the second to the last advertising page was
changed to *** for this text version.

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