Action Browne, George Waldo: Forge and Furnace. v2. 3 Feb 2017

[crutledge]

George Waldo Browne: Born : 1851 Oct 8 Deerfield, New Hampshire, USA: Died : 1930 Aug 13
Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

Excerpt
“Don’t! You musn’t do that! Oh, Joe Bleak! how you do—stop! stop!”
The speaker was a pale-faced, slender boy of sixteen, clad in a ragged shirt and trousers, the latter garment reaching but a little below his knees, while the sleeves of the former had been cut off at the elbows, a thick coating of grime and coal dust making up in its way for whatever of clothing he may seemed to have lacked. While there was evidence about him showing he belonged to the very poorest of the working class, the contour of his pinched features, almost girlish in their outlines, the clear light of his brown eyes and the expression of his lips told that he had a mind above the dreary routine of his daily tasks.

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[Calenorn]

Hello Mr. Rutledge,

The excerpt has several interesting letter substitutions. It contains the words "yon", "tronsers", "cnt" and "dnst." Looks like the letter "u" was replaced by an "n" all four times. That's not an OCR switch that I've seen a lot, and yet there it is multiple times in one paragraph.

Interesting!