The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Atlantic
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Transcriber's Notes
In the text of this book, italicized phrases are presented by surrounding the text with underscores, and boldface phrases are presented by surrounding the text with equal signs.
Hyphenated words have been retained as they appear in the original text, except as noted in the full list of changes below.
Changes made to the text:
table of contents - changed "Aim" to "Arm" to match the actual chapter title original text: XXII. You Saved My Aim
table of contents - added dash after "Adventure" to match actual chapter title original text: XV. An Adventure
page 10 - changed "shipowner" to "ship-owner" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Her dad, he’s Jacob Jukes, the big ship-owner
page 10 - changed "shipowner" to "ship-owner" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Someone had found the ship-owner
page 33 - changed "figure-head" to "figurehead" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Your figure-head looks like you
page 36 - changed "top-sails" to "topsails" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Douse my top-sails
page 55 - changed "oilskins" to "oil-skins" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: uncouth figure in dripping oilskins
page 70 - changes "pairs" to "pair" original text: very red pairs of ears
page 100 - changed "ship-wrecked" to "shipwrecked" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: transfer the ship-wrecked men
page 184 - added italics to "Ajax" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: The Ajax would not be ready for
page 185 - added closing quote at end of paragraph original text: you are ready for sea again.
page 190 - changed "is" to "in" original text: Now what is the world is going on
page 196 - changed "fireroom" to "fire-room" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: had been transferred to the fireroom
page 218 - changed "water-front" to "waterfront" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: the shadowy region toward the water-front.
page 220 - changed "up-town" to "uptown" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Mr. Jukes was speeding up-town
page 226 - changed "lamppost" to "lamp-post" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: When you struck that lamppost——” “That lamppost!” exclaimed Jack.
page 243 - added closing quote to sentence original text: Please repeat warning.
page 258 - changed "thought" to "brought" original text: The boy could not have thought
page 271 - added apostrophe to "Heavens" original text: For Heavens sake, send help!
page 279 - changed "Keelhaul" to "Keel-haul" to be consistent with other usage in the book original text: Keelhaul me if ever I sail
page 297 - added closing quote original text: was miserably weak.
page 305 - changed "Dukes" to "Jukes" original text: Dukes, son of the old millionaire.
no page number - ad page "Log Cabin to White House Series" changed "statemanship" to "statesmanship" original text: of his statemanship
no page number - ad page "Log Cabin to White House Series" changed "citzenship" to "citizenship" original text: circles and private citzenship.
no page numbers - five advertisement pages (first, second, fourth, fifth, and sixth) have a subheader line that contained a small number followed by a square bracket - these two character notations have been removed, as they appear to be some type of typographical annotation not relevant to the text