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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes 1)

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[Footnote 11: "condonment": should be condonement.]

[Footnote 13: "wages.": ending quote is missing.]

[Footnote 14: "the first.": ending quote is missing.]

[Footnote 15: "make much of...": Other editions complete this sentencewith an "it." But there is a gap in the text at this point, and, giventhe context, it may have actually been an interjection, a dash. The gapis just the right size for the characters "it." and the start of a newsentence, or for a "----"]

[Footnote 16: "tho cushion": "tho" should be "the"]

[Footnote 19: "shoving": later editions have "showing". The original isclearly superior.]

[Footnote 20: "stared about...": illustration, with the caption: "One ofthem seized the little girl, and hoisted her upon his shoulder."]

[Footnote 21: "upon the": illustration, with the caption: "As he watchedit he saw it writhe along the ground."]

[Footnote 22: "FORMERLY...": F,S,L,C in caps, other letters in this linein small caps.]

[Footnote 23: "ancles": ankles.]

[Footnote 24: "asked,": should be "asked."]

[Footnote 25: "poisions": should be "poisons"]

[Footnote 26: "...fancy": should be "I fancy". There is a gap in thetext.]

[Footnote 27: "snackled": "shackled" in later texts.]

[Footnote 29: Heber C. Kemball, in one of his sermons, alludes to hishundred wives under this endearing epithet.]


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