FOOTNOTES:
[10] Pebbles, it is scarcely necessary to say, are colourless.
[11] This gentleman stormed most lustily when made aware of the trick which had been practised upon him, and threatened legal exposure to the “professional optician.” But this course is seldom resorted to, the dupes recollecting that, while they publish the swindler’s villainy, they give us but an indifferent idea of their own discernment, beside the uncertainty and incongruity ever attendant upon Law, thus quaintly sketched by Bentham;—“If a man give you a black eye, you make him pay for it, but if he put your eye out, you get nothing; and whatever is taken from him goes nominally to the queen—really to John Stokes or Jack Nokes who have no concern at all in the matter. If a man kill your pig, you get the value of it, but if he kill your wife or your child, you get nothing—if any thing is got out of him it goes to a stranger, as before. A man sets your house on fire, if by misfortune, you receive amends, if through malice, you receive nothing.”