[56]: Elegant paper for the upper classes.—Tr.
[57]: In the original, "hang hares' tails on us," i. e. "make fools of us."—Tr.
[58]: Literally, spit-devils,—a sort of firework.—Tr.
[59]: I. e. Birthday-festival.—Tr.
[60]: Not one of the commonplace souls that jog steadily on like the hexameter.—Tr.
[61]: This was a common practice of our old New England Puritan parsons.—Tr.
[62]: Disciples of Kennicott, the well-known English verifier of the general accuracy of the Sacred Text.—Tr.
[63]: A trap extemporized by setting up a heavy book obliquely, with one end resting on a stick, and the cheese attached.—Tr.
[64]: Christina, daughter of Charles XII., abdicated in May, 1654, at the age of twenty-eight.—Tr.
[65]: A famous and popular old volume delineating the world of nature and life in pictures, with numbers referring to the different parts of each picture.—Tr.