Transcriber’s Notes
This file uses underscores to indicate italic text. New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain. Itemized changes from the original text:
• title page: Added comma after “Phenomenon in a Smock-frock.” • Cast of Characters: Expanded ditto marks from original for clarity. • Cast of Characters: Changed “wtaer” to “water” in description of Conrad. • Cast of Characters: Changed “Pead Cock” to “Head Cook” in description of Syng Smaul. • Cast of Characters: Changed comma to period after “Mr. Holmes” in entry for Syng Smaul. • Cast of Characters: Changed comma to period after “Mrs. Cook” in entry for Zuliema. • Cast of Characters: Added comma after “Guards.” • p. 4: Replaced “Iv’e” with “I’ve” in line “Smokers, I’ve heard, have put their pipes out.” • p. 5: Replaced “Serana” with “Serena” in stage direction “Serena is seen darting up towards the earth as the scene closes.” • p. 6: Replaced “its” with “it’s” in line “If so, just give your orders and it’s done.” • p. 7: Replaced “Yussuff” with “Yussuf” before line “Now then, you tarnal critters” and in preceding stage direction. • p. 7: Supplied missing period after character name “Pasha” before line “Slave, who bid you interfere?” • p. 8: Supplied missing period after character name “Medora” before line “With pleasure, if it pleases you, I will.” • p. 8: Replaced period with comma in line “So good, so true.” • p. 8: Supplied missing question mark after line “What strange presentiment of woe comes o’er me?” • p. 9: Supplied leading space before line “Guards, hew him limb from limb!” • p. 9: Replaced “Yessuf” with “Yussuf” in character name before line “Go at him--all at once.” • p. 10: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Exit, R., followed by the Girls.” • p. 10: removed hyphen from “fly-too” in line “Nay, fly not yet, or else let me fly too.” • p. 11: Added small caps to “Medora” in stage direction “Throws scarf over MEDORA’S head.” • p. 11: Supplied leading space before line “Hush! don’t speak.” • p. 13: Supplied leading space before line “Help! Conrad!” and expand leading space in following line. • p. 14: Moved stage direction “Throws money amongst them” from before to after first line of speech. • p. 15: Replaced comma with period after phrase “Aye, and pay rates and taxes like a Briton.” • p. 15: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Serena sinks, R. C.” • p. 16: Replaced “spectales” with “spectacles” in line “With spectacles you might--you won’t without!” • p. 18: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Runs out, L.” • p. 19: Replaced “Birbbanto” with “Birbanto” in stage direction “Enter Birbanto, L.” • p. 19: Replaced “qustion” with “question” in line “Well, if you ask the question then--I have.” • p. 19: Replaced “villian” with “villain” in line “Die, villain!” • p. 20: Supplied leading space before line “And she consents? oh, no.” • p. 20: Supplied missing period after line “I don’t.” • p. 21: Supplied leading space before lines “I will” and “And now consent to sham!” • p. 22: Supplied missing opening bracket before stage direction “Weeping and joining their hands.” • p. 22: Supplied missing period after stage direction “[Aside to her.]” • p. 23: Supplied leading space before line “’Tis done, the marriage rites are ended!” • p. 23: Removed exclamation point after line “Nay, my fright.” • p. 23: Removed duplicate character identification before line “Say, are they loaded?” • p. 26: Supplied leading space before line “True! I’ll keep them, love, with pleasure.” • p. 27: Replaced period with comma in line “Kind friends, in this great reform movement.” • advertisement: Replaced “proprietod” with “proprietor” in line “the proprietor presents a most agreeable feature.”
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