Footnotes:
[{6}] Except with worm in a summer flood.
[{8}] Perhaps an Editor put this moral in?
[{16}] The author once caught a salmon. It did not behave in any way like the ferocious fish in this article.
[{23}] Mr. Wordsworth, in his poem of “The Recluse,” expresses a horror of this diversion.
[{37}] It is a melancholy fact that the Author has quite forgotten what did happen! Thus a narrative, probably diverting, is for ever lost, thanks to the modesty of our free Press.
[{135}] These remarks were made before the great discovery of some modern authors, that the best novels are those in which there is never a petticoat.
[{152}] What was this anecdote?