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  Transcriber's Notes:

  This book contains a number of misprints. The following misprints have been corrected:

  [anything unforeseen occur] -> [anything unforeseen occurs] [the dust-grimmed members] -> [the dust-grimed members] [ordered Mr. Bulkley] -> [ordered Mr. Buckley] (this error occurs twice) [embarassing] -> [embarrassing] [chosing] -> [choosing]

  A few cases of punctuation errors were corrected, but are not mentioned here.

 
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