[65] Miss Mary Anderson.
[66] Stage direction. The thunder is produced by rolling a turnip in a fish kettle.
[67] Clark’s Horses were notorious buck-jumpers.
[68] “Of the many cases to which I have alluded there are some that have commanded my attention by reason of their unusual depravity,—cases in which three or four adults of both sexes, with many children were lodging in the same room, and often sleeping in the same bed. I have notes of three or four localities where 48 men, 73 women, and 69 children are living in 34 rooms. They are distributed as follows 2 men, 2 women, and 3 children in one room; 1 man, 2 women, and 3 children; 1 man, 4 women, and 2 children; 2 men, 3 women, and 1 child; 2 men, 1 woman, and 2 children; 1 man, 4 women, and 1 child; 1 man and 3 women; 2 men and 3 women; and so on.—Vide Report.
[69] “About a fortnight since, I visited the back room on the ground floor of No. 5. I found it occupied by 1 man, 2 women, and 2 children, and in it was the dead body of a poor girl who had died in childbirth a few days before. The body was stretched out on the bare floor without shroud or coffin.”—Ibid.
[70] Since this paragraph was in type I have received a copy of the second edition of The Banquet from the author, Mr. George Cotterell. Collectors of Tennysoniana should certainly “make a note” of this amusing little book. Ed. Parodies.
[71] On the Fell Railway which preceded the Mont Cenis Tunnel.
[72] Bridges, on the 119th Psalm.
