[16] Though, I confess, I only guess at some of them.
[17a] Fogle means a silk handkerchief, according to Farmer and Henley’s Dictionary of Slang, 1905, and may perhaps suggest the picking of pockets. Its connection with Bandanna is obvious.
[17b] The appropriateness of Burke is sufficiently obvious. The trial of Thurtell by Judge Park was also a cause celèbre. There was a ballad of the day in which the victim is described with some bloodthirsty detail which I omit:
“His name was Mr William Weare,
He lived in Lyons Inn.”
After the murder Thurtell drove back to London and had a hearty supper at an eating-house. Judge Park, who tried him, is said to have exclaimed: “Commit a murder and eat six pork chops! Good God, what dreams the man must have had.” Catherine Hayes was also a well-known miscreant.
[18] A collocation preceding by half a dozen years Doyle’s immortal travels of Brown, Jones, and Robinson.
[19] There is also a Mrs Glowry (chap. xxvi.), who speculates as to whether the Pope is to fall in 1836 or 1839.
[20] The History of Pickwick, 1891, pp. 14, 15.
[21] The History of Pickwick, 1891, p. 153.
[23] How much better is the name Madge Wildfire for a somewhat similar character in The Heart of Midlothian.