FOOTNOTES:

[A] See New-York Police Reports.

[B] Moss. We had always taken this word, so common in New-York, to be pure and choice Manhattanese, and thought our cockney friend was at fault: but on looking up the authorities, we find that one Shakspere, a person of quondam reputation, has used the same word in the same way.

Ed. Knickerbocker.

[C] 'Or fu mai Gente si vana come la Sanese?'—Dante.

[D] A modest line borrowed from Doctor Johnson's 'Irene.'