[5] The Ladies were Mrs. Caliban, Miss Rachel and Miss Alethëia Caliban, Miss Bowley, Miss Goucher, and Lady Robinson.
[6] “It is enough for me that I am an Englishman.”
[7] This Phrase closes the XXXIVth of Dr. Caliban’s “Subjects for Sinners.”
[8] I reproduce the title in its original form. I was only too pleased to know that my work would appear above his signature; nor do I see anything reprehensible in what is now a recognized custom among journalists.
[9] Let the student note, by way of warning, and avoid this officer’s use of ready-made phrases.
[10] Of what?
[11] The student will find a list of Historical Personages to praise and blame carefully printed in two colours at the end of Williams’ Journalist’s History of England.
[12] The Holts are still Liberal-Unionists.
[13] The pet name of the white pony. The name is taken from the Arabian Nights.
[14] The use of the name of an estate in the place of the name of its owner or owners is very common with the territorial class in our countrysides. Thus, people will say, “I have been calling at the Laurels,” or “I dined with the Monkey Tree”; meaning, “I have been calling upon Mrs. So-and-So,” or, “I have been dining with Sir Charles Gibbs.”