Most of it is scanning/encoding errors, true, but the example of the high school edition of _Down and Out_ really does seem to be intentional alteration -- ther

Most of it is scanning/encoding errors, true, but the example of the high school edition of _Down and Out_ really does seem to be intentional alteration -- there's no way that rewording "Come here, my chicken" to "Come here" is a technical issue. For whatever reason, a human wanted that change.