Footnotes

  1. 1881. ↩

  2. Written for the “Book” of the Edinburgh University Union Fancy Fair. ↩

  3. Professor Tait’s laboratory assistant. ↩

  4. In Dr. Murray’s admirable new dictionary, I have remarked a flaw sub voce Beacon. In its express, technical sense, a beacon may be defined as “a founded, artificial sea-mark, not lighted.” ↩

  5. The late Fleeming Jenkin. ↩

  6. This sequel was called forth by an excellent article in The Spectator. ↩

  7. Waiter, Watty, Woggy, Woggs, Wogg, and lastly Bogue; under which last name he fell in battle some twelve months ago. Glory was his aim and he attained it; for his icon, by the hand of Caldecott, now lies among the treasures of the nation. ↩

  8. Since traced by many obliging correspondents to the gallery of Charles Kingsley. ↩

  9. Since the above was written I have tried to launch the boat with my own hands in Kidnapped. Some day, perhaps, I may try a rattle at the shutters. ↩

  10. 1882. ↩

  11. This paper, which does not otherwise fit the present volume, is reprinted here as the proper continuation of the last. ↩

  12. 1884 ↩

  13. Now no longer so, thank Heaven! ↩

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