ills" changed to "hand-bills"
(page 188) "beliving" changed to "believing"
(pages 203, 204) "bed-post" changed to "bedpost"
(page 214) "sipte" changed to "spite"
(page 211) used single quotation marks for the inscription
(page 225) quotation mark added before "On no condition"
(page 243) quotation mark added after "seem to win,"
(page 264) quotation mark added before "for I"
(page 269) quotation mark added after "certificate."
(page 276) question mark added after "lawyer you are"
(page 303) "pining" changed to "pinning"
(page 315) "slience" changed to "silence"

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