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@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ DENOUNCES THE MONROE           DOCTRINE.
 WHAT WILL BRITAIN DO? IS IT WAR?---------------------------------------
 
 This sort of thing was alvays going on, and on holidays one disregarded
-it as a matter of course. Week-davs, in the slack time after the midday
+it as a matter of course. Week-days, in the slack time after the midday
 meal, then perhaps one might worry about the Empire and international
 politics; but not on a sunny Sunday, with a pretty girl trailing behind
 one, and envious cyclists trying to race you. Nor did our young people
@@ -4133,7 +4133,7 @@ we've been dreaming of for years! I suppose we shall fly right away to
 New York--just as though it wasn't anything at all. I suppose we shall
 reckon we aren't wanted down there. It's no more than a covering fight
 on our side. All those tenders and store-ships of ours are going on
-southwest by west to New York to make a floating depot for us. See?” He
+south-west by west to New York to make a floating depot for us. See?” He
 dabbed his forefinger on the map. “Here we are. Our train of stores goes
 there, our battleships elbow the Americans out of our way there.”
 
@@ -7088,38 +7088,38 @@ over itself and vanished into the smoke of Buffalo.
 
 Bert's mouth opened and shut, and he clutched tighter on the rail of
 the bridge. For some moments--they seemed long moments--the two fleets
-remained without any further change flying obliquely towards each other,
-and making what came to Bert's ears as a midget uproar. Then suddenly
-from either side airships began dropping out of alignment, smitten by
-missiles he could neither see nor trace. The string of Asiatic ships
-swung round and either charged into or over (it was difficult to say
-from below) the shattered line of the Germans, who seemed to open out
-to give way to them. Some sort of manoeuvring began, but Bert could
-not grasp its import. The left of the battle became a confused dance
-of airships. For some minutes up there the two crossing lines of ships
-looked so close it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle in the sky. Then
-they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of German air-ships
-towards the lower sky increased. One of them flared down and vanished
-far away in the north; two dropped with something twisted and crippled
-in their movements; then a group of antagonists came down from the
-zenith in an eddying conflict, two Asiatics against one German, and were
-presently joined by another, and drove away eastward all together with
-others dropping out of the German line to join them.
-
-One Asiatic either rammed or collided with a still more gigantic German,
-and the two went spinning to destruction together. The northern squadron
-of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert, except that the
-multitude of ships above seemed presently increased. In a little while
-the fight was utter confusion, drifting on the whole to the southwest
-against the wind. It became more and more a series of group encounters.
-Here a huge German airship flamed earthward with a dozen flat Asiatic
-craft about her, crushing her every attempt to recover. Here another
-hung with its screw fighting off the swordsman from a swarm of
-flying-machines. Here, again, an Asiatic aflame at either end swooped
-out of the battle. His attention went from incident to incident in the
-vast clearness overhead; these conspicuous cases of destruction caught
-and held his mind; it was only very slowly that any sort of scheme
-manifested itself between those nearer, more striking episodes.
+remained without any further change flying obliquely towards each
+other, and making what came to Bert's ears as a midget uproar. Then
+suddenly from either side airships began dropping out of alignment,
+smitten by missiles he could neither see nor trace. The string of
+Asiatic ships swung round and either charged into or over (it was
+difficult to say from below) the shattered line of the Germans, who
+seemed to open out to give way to them. Some sort of manoeuvring began,
+but Bert could not grasp its import. The left of the battle became a
+confused dance of airships. For some minutes up there the two crossing
+lines of ships looked so close it seemed like a hand-to-hand scuffle
+in the sky. Then they broke up into groups and duels. The descent of
+German air-ships towards the lower sky increased. One of them flared
+down and vanished far away in the north; two dropped with something
+twisted and crippled in their movements; then a group of antagonists
+came down from the zenith in an eddying conflict, two Asiatics against
+one German, and were presently joined by another, and drove away
+eastward all together with others dropping out of the German line to
+join them. One Asiatic either rammed or collided with a still more
+gigantic German, and the two went spinning to destruction together. The
+northern squadron of Asiatics came into the battle unnoted by Bert,
+except that the multitude of ships above seemed presently increased.
+In a little while the fight was utter confusion, drifting on the whole
+to the south-west against the wind. It became more and more a series
+of group encounters. Here a huge German airship flamed earthward with
+a dozen flat Asiatic craft about her, crushing her every attempt to
+recover. Here another hung with its screw fighting off the swordsman
+from a swarm of flying-machines. Here, again, an Asiatic aflame at
+either end swooped out of the battle. His attention went from incident
+to incident in the vast clearness overhead; these conspicuous cases of
+destruction caught and held his mind; it was only very slowly that any
+sort of scheme manifested itself between those nearer, more striking
+episodes.
 
 The mass of the airships that eddied remotely above was, however,
 neither destroying nor destroyed. The majority of them seemed to
@@ -7146,7 +7146,7 @@ Perhaps a hundred yards above the water, out of the south, riding like
 Valkyries swiftly through the air on the strange steeds the engineering
 of Europe had begotten upon the artistic inspiration of Japan, came
 a long string of Asiatic swordsman. The wings flapped jerkily, click,
-block, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased,
+clock, clitter clock, and the machines drove up; they spread and ceased,
 and the apparatus came soaring through the air. So they rose and fell
 and rose again. They passed so closely overhead that Bert could hear
 their voices calling to one another. They swooped towards Niagara city
@@ -8066,7 +8066,7 @@ gleam in Bert's eye, drew his sword.
 The bird-faced officer intervened, saying something in German and
 pointing skyward.
 
-Far away in the southwest appeared a Japanese airship coming fast toward
+Far away in the south-west appeared a Japanese airship coming fast toward
 them. Their conflict ended at that. The Prince was first to grasp the
 situation and lead the retreat. All three scuttled like rabbits for the
 trees, and ran to and for cover until they found a hollow in which
@@ -9191,7 +9191,7 @@ He tore open his collar and opened vest and shirt. He plunged into his
 interior and for an instant it seemed he was plucking forth his liver.
 Then as he struggled with buttons on his shoulder they perceived this
 flattened horror was in fact a terribly dirty flannel chest-protector.
-In an other moment Bert, in a state of irregular decolletage, was
+In another moment Bert, in a state of irregular decolletage, was
 standing over the table displaying a sheaf of papers.
 
 “These!” he gasped. “These are the plans!... You know! Mr.
@@ -9208,7 +9208,7 @@ When it's too late to think of making 'em any more!”
 4
 
 They would all no doubt have been eager to hear Bert's story over again,
-but it was it this point that Laurier showed his quality. “No, SIR,” he
+but it was at this point that Laurier showed his quality. “No, SIR,” he
 said, and slid from off his table.
 
 He impounded the dispersing Butteridge plans with one comprehensive
@@ -9240,7 +9240,7 @@ a deflated tyre.
 Laurier looked down on him. “He is reported in the neighbourhood of
 Albany--out towards the Berkshire Hills. He is moving from place to
 place and, as far as he can, organising the defence by telegraph and
-telephones The Asiatic air-fleet is trying to locate him. When they
+telephone. The Asiatic air-fleet is trying to locate him. When they
 think they have located the seat of government, they throw bombs. This
 inconveniences him, but so far they have not come within ten miles of
 him. The Asiatic air-fleet is at present scattered all over the
@@ -9743,7 +9743,7 @@ wire had dropped here, and that a cart stood abandoned by the wayside.
 But he would still find his hunger whetted by the bright assurance that
 Wilder's Canned Peaches were excellent, or that there was nothing so
 good for the breakfast table as Gobble's Sausages. And then suddenly
-would come the Düreresque element; the skeleton of a horse, or some
+would come the Dureresque element; the skeleton of a horse, or some
 crumpled mass of rags in the ditch, with gaunt extended feet and a
 yellow, purple-blotched skin and face, or what had been a face, gaunt
 and glaring and devastated. Then here would be a field that had been