FOOTNOTES:
[A] Daniel's "Rural Sports."
[B] Daniel's "Rural Sports."
[C] Thornton's "Instincts."
[D] "Sportsman's Cabinet."
[E] Ballet, in his "Dissertations sur la Mythologie Française," shows that this popular story of the dog of Montargis is much older than the time of Charles V.; and that Albericus, an old monkish chronicler, records it as happening in the reign of Charlemagne, anno 780.
[F] See the entire poem in Tomkins' "Beauties of English Poetry." 18mo. 1847.
[G] "I fear this is a sad geological anachronism; however, I cannot but hope that the Irish wolf-dog will yet be found in some cavern, associated with the prototypes of Ireland's earliest heroes who peopled the land soon after it emerged from the deep,
'Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.'"
[H] O'Keefe, "Wicklow Gold Mines."