No little room so warm and bright,
Wherein to read, wherein to write.”
[There were two other verses, but in later editions of his works Tennyson has omitted the entire poem. Messrs. Harper and Brothers, of New York, have however recently published an edition containing all Tennyson’s early and suppressed poems. This is invaluable as a book of reference for literary men. Ed. P.]
[125] Be pleased to give this word the proper Cockney pronunciation—Mamar! None others are genuine.
[126] Corpses.
[127] To shoot.
[128] Uncle Sam. The people of the United States use this term of themselves, in the same way that Britons speak of “John Bull.”
[129] Renegaders.—People in the Northern States who sympathised with the slaveholders.
[130] Kinney and Walker were two leaders of the “fillibusters” who went “piratifying to extend the area of freedom” in Central America in 1855-60. Walker was shot, as he richly deserved, by the Honduras folks in 1860. He lived in San Francisco, 1850-55, and the southerners there (they are quite numerous and are called the “chivs,” from chivalry), are still noticeably inclined to think his views were not far wrong.
[131] Nothing shorter. A circumlocutive intended to strengthen an assertion by means of affirming something through the exclusion of everything else. A similar form of speech is to say, when asked if you will do something, to say “I won’t do anything else.”