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NOTES.
"To brandish the poles of that old Sedan Chair!"—Page [7].
A friendly critic, whose versatile pen it is not easy to mistake, recalls, à-propos of the above, the following passage from Molière, which shows that Chairmen are much the same all the world over:—
1 Porteur (prenant un des bâtons de sa chaise). Çà, payez-nous vitement!
Mascarille. Quoi!
1 Porteur. Je dis que je veux avoir de l'argent tout à l'heure.
Mascarille. Il est raisonnable, celui-là, etc.
Les Précieuses Ridicules, Sc. vii.
"It has waited by portals where Garrick has played."—Page [8].
According to Mrs. Carter (Smith's Nollekens, 1828, i. 211), when Garrick acted, the hackney-chairs often stood "all round the Piazzas [Covent Garden], down Southampton-Street, and extended more than half-way along Maiden-Lane."