Footnotes:
[1] The aversion of the poorer classes in Scotland to receive parochial relief, or to go into “the house,” is well known. No man having once done so can—or indeed would be permitted to—hold up his head among his neighbours again.
[2] One only child.
[3] Gowk—a cuckoo, an animal of little sense.
[4] Tit—pap.
[5] Dripping = kitchen-fee.
[6] Glossary to above. 1, Thrum, a bit of thread. 2, hum, sing low without words. 3, grat, wept. 4, eenies, little eyes. 5, preenies, small pins. 6, syne, then. 7, glum, melancholy. 8, heed, head. 9, bleed, blood. 10, beanies, small bones. 11, Num! Nice! 12, greet, weep. 13, lum, chimney-pot.
[7] Women selling Scotch confectionery.
[8] Note. This chapter “is rote sarkastic.”
[9] See, [page 100], vol. I.