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After submitting The Ball and the Cross to Project Gutenberg I found eleven more typos in it. It’s amazing how many pop up even after a careful check. (I learned that many, many times when I was the high school newspaper editor.)

I’ve finished reformatting Further Chronicles of Avonlea and The Story Girl. I’m about halfway through reformatting Kilmeny of the Orchard. Kilmeny and Rainbow Valley will take longer because I have to convert the single spaces between sentences to double spaces. Oh well. I still need to get copyright clearance for all four books…

Last night I spent the evening picking peas with my family in our backyard. I rather like manual labor. There’s something richly satisfying about working the land.