FOOTNOTES:
[A] This spirited Song is from 'The Adventures of a Poet, a Tale told in Rhyme,' by F. W. Thomas, Esq., author of 'Clinton Bradshaw,' etc. We have been permitted to peruse the poem in manuscript; and are so impressed with the life and variety of incident which pervade it, and the ease and grace of its execution, that we cannot omit the expression of a hope that it may soon be given in a printed form to the public. The self-complacent tone of the stalwart boatmen of the West, will remind the reader of Dibdin's sailor who 'pitied the poor devils ashore' in a hurricane whose music was so welcome to him on the deep.
Ed. Knickerbocker.
[B] Our readers will not have forgotten the initial 'Crayon Paper' from which our correspondent derives this exquisite passage. It may be found in the number of this Magazine for March, 1839.
Ed. Knickerbocker.
[C] A celebrated comic actor.