[9] By this name he called the Houses of Parliament.
[10] A few months before Mr. Dibdin's decease, and at the intercession of some friends, he received 100 l. out of the Queen's Bounty Fund. But he has left a widow and young family, for whom no provision whatever has been made.
[11] Not attached to our establishment.
[12] For the First, vide Lane's Arabian Nights,—"Abul Hassan, or the Sleeper Awakened."
[13] Little sorrow at parting, as the man said to the bad shilling.
[14] Travellers see strange things.
[15] Not long since a man, heedless or drunk, fell asleep upon a railroad; the train arrived, and literally cut him to pieces. "I suppose, sir, we had better get the man together?" said a labourer, soon after the accident had occurred. "By all means," answered he in authority. Death is but death, we allow; but death by the railroad is not only wholesale but frightfully terrific. To avoid the chance of such accidents, when possible, is an imperative duty, and every road which crosses a railroad should be over or under it. We need only refer to two recent accidents caused by the want of such prevention.
[16] The reader may use his own judgment as to the chronological accuracy of the foregoing tale. It is a fact that Jones and Nelson were both equipped by the same person, Richardson, and that the king's pilot took Horatio down to Wapping for that purpose.
[17] I believe it was the same room in which Fauntleroy was confined, previously to trial.
[18] Vide "the industrious fleas"—play-acting elephants, &c., &c., &c.