Old Mill Done.

Finally finished up transcribing The Secret of The Old Mill. Will have to say that all in all that I enjoyed getting back into typing stuff up again.  Took all in all, about 8 weeks to do (in spare time after work and sometimes before work, I'm not the fastest typist.) Now going through some downloaded files to see what is the originals and what is the books we got here, in all to do it again. 

I'm only going to be looking at those stories that got an extensive rewrite in the 60's, so its basically the first 24 books and probably less if the pdf.s I downloaded are what they say they are.  The downside is that the originals aren't cheap, $25 (£18)per copy and the same again to ship to the UK on Ebay and around £10 for  the Applewood reprints which cover the first 15 or so books.

Any way, here is the original Secret Of The Old Mill, all proof read and typeset correctly.

On  a side note when did we drop the hyphen from to-night and to-day. It seems weird seeing this in period texts as its entirely absent from "today's" written language.

Oh and I may have touched on this before, but if you'd like some Cliff Notes to go with this explaining stuff then I will only be too happy to oblige.  As some of the terms used are quite obscure, especially the old underworld slang Mr Hardy uses from time to time. Chet Morton for that matter has some pretty obscure slang too for the interested.