FOOTNOTES:
[38] Not a "row," but a dance—
"The brave Lord Keeper led the brawls,
The seals and maces danced before him."—Gray.
And truly Sir Christopher danced to some tune.
[39] Hibernicè "nigger," quasi "niggard." Vide B. Maguire passim.
It is to my excellent and erudite friend, Simpkinson, that I am indebted for his graphic description of the well-known chalk-pit, between Acol and Minster, in the Isle of Thanet, known by the name of the "Smuggler's Leap." The substance of the true history attached to it he picked up while visiting that admirable institution, the "Sea-Bathing Infirmary," of which he is a "Life Governor," and enjoying his otium cum dignitate last summer at the least aristocratic of all possible watering-places.
Before I proceed to detail it, however, I cannot, in conscience, fail to bespeak for him the reader's sympathy in one of his own
[MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE.]
A LEGEND OF JARVIS'S JETTY.