Footnotes

“Mauth” is Manx for dog, I am told. ↩

It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. ↩

In the third volume of his essays. ↩

“I remember I went into the room where my father’s body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling ‘Papa,’ for I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.”—STEELE, The Tatler, June 6, 1710. ↩

Longmans. ↩

I like to know what the author got. ↩

Salmon roe, I am sorry to say. ↩

“Why and Wherefore,” Aytoun. ↩

Fersitan legendum, “Help Thou.” ↩

I know, now, who Miriam was and who was the haunter of the Catacombs. But perhaps the people is as well without the knowledge of an old and “ower true tale” that shook a throne. ↩

Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can! ↩

Edinburgh, 1685. ↩