R. L. S.
[1] For many years fellow of and historical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[2] Paillon.
[3] The name of the Delectable Land in one of Heine’s Lieder.
[4] Silverado Squatters.
[5] The allusion is to a specimen I had been used to hear quoted of the Duke of Wellington’s table-talk in his latter years. He had said that musk-rats were sometimes kept alive in bottles in India. Curate, or other meek dependent: “I presume, your Grace, they are small rats and large bottles.” His Grace: “No, large rats, small bottles; large rats, small bottles; large rats, small bottles.”
[6] Croûtes: crude studies from nature.
[7] Mr. J. Comyns Carr, at this time editing the English Illustrated Magazine.
[8] A favourite Skye terrier. Mr. Stevenson was a great lover of dogs.