[FOOTNOTES]
1. I venture to hope (at this long distance of years) that my
language in telling the story was more simple than appears from this
account.
2. This difference of spelling in the same essay will be much
appreciated by those who know how gladly children offer an orthographical
alternative, in hopes that one if not the other may satisfy the exigency
of the situation.
3. See "List of Stories."
4. At the Congressional Library in Washington.
5. Letters of T. E. Brown, page 55.
6. Page 55.
7. In further illustration of this point see "When Burbage Played,"
Austen Dobson, and "In the Nursery," Hans Andersen.
8. "Les jeux des enfants," page 16.
9. A noted Greek gymnast struck his pupil, though he was applauded by
the whole assembly. "You did it clumsily, and not as you ought, for
these people would never have praised you for anything really artistic."