[5.] Pen-bryn's bold bard. Sir Lewis Morris, author of the Epic of Hades, lived at Pen-bryn, in Caermarthanshire.
[11-12.] In Burns's poem, Poor Mailie's Elegy, [p.188] occur the following lines:—
"Come, join the melancholious croon O' Robin's reed."
[20.] Potsdam. The capital of the government district of Potsdam, in the province of Brandenburg, Prussia; hence the dog's name, Kaiser.
[41.] the Grand Old Man. Gladstone.
[50.] agog. In a state of eager excitement.
[65.] Geist. Also remembered in a poem entitled Geist's Grave, included in this volume.
[76.] chiel. A Scotch word meaning lad, fellow.
"Buirdly chiels an clever hizzies."
—BURNS, The Twa Dogs.
Skye. The largest of the Inner Hebrides. See note, l. [7], Saint Brandan.