FOOTNOTES

[{1}] “Mauth” is Manx for dog, I am told.

[{2}] It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.

[{3}] In the third volume of his essays.

[{4}] “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.

[{5}] Longmans.

[{6}] I like to know what the author got.

[{7}] Salmon roe, I am sorry to say.

[{8}] “Why and Wherefore,” Aytoun.

[{9}] Fersitan legendum, “Help Thou.”

[{10}] 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.

[{11}] Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can!

[{12}] Edinburgh, 1685.