Footnotes.
[1] From a new life of Penn, by Hepworth Dixon, in the press of Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia.
[2] This little story is drawn from the French. The Revolutionary era was so fertile in romantic incidents, springing at once from the theatrical character of the people, and the extraordinary excitement of the period, that the adventure of Barbaroux is quite within the range of probability. One vote did at last condemn Louis XVI.
[3] From "Rambles beyond Railways," an interesting work by W. Wilkie Collins, just published in London.
[4] The writer is in earnest; this is a true story.—Ed.
[5] From Mayhew's "London Labor and the London Poor," now publishing by Harper and Brothers.
[6] First rate.
[7] Pot of beer.
[8] No.
[9] Bad luck.
[10] Badly.
[11] From "Rambles beyond Railways," by W. Wilkie Collins.
[12] From Mayhew's "London Labor and the London Poor," in the press of Messrs. Harper and Brothers.
[13] It need scarcely be observed, that Jackeymo, in his conversations with his master or Violante, or his conference with himself, employs his native language, which is therefore translated without the blunders that he is driven to commit when compelled to trust himself to the tongue of the country in which he is a sojourner.
[14] Mr. Dale probably here alludes to Lord Bolingbroke's ejaculation as he stood by the dying Pope; but his memory does not serve him with the exact words.