FOOTNOTES:
[1]: Eton was founded and endowed by King Henry the Sixth. A marble bust of the poet Gray was presented by Lord Morpeth, in 1846, and placed, amongst many others, in the upper school.
[2]: A pair of Baltimore birds (the orchard oriole) returned summer after summer, and built their hanging nest, not only in the same apple-tree, but on the same bough, which overhung a terrace, in a garden belonging to the writer at Geneva, New York, until one season a terrific storm, not of hail but ice, tore the nest from the tree, and killed the young, and the parent birds never afterward returned.
[3]: In all editions but that published by Mr. John Sharpe the initial only of this name has been given—"Mr. P."—even the Eton edition of this year has it so. It seems folly to continue what may have been very proper nearly a hundred years ago, when the individual was alive; but the Rev. Robert Purt died in April, 1752!
Transcriber's Note:
1. Page 83--'for the lady lacked neither the wit not humor, and the ....' changed to 'for the lady lacked neither wit nor humor...'
2. Page 83--superfluous word 'his' removed from sentence '...he had nothing on but his his shirt, and...'
3. Page 85--typo 'centipeds' corrected to 'centipedes'
4. Page 85--superfluous word 'his' removed from sentence '...constant to his his first love, mourning...'
5. A number of contracted forms, such as 't is, shortened to 'tis, in order to preserve the scansion of poetry
6. Page 106--typo in sentence '...up the mill-stream, und as we returned...' replaced by 'and'
7. Page 106--typo 'outrè' in sentence '...however strange or outrè; and there is...' changed to 'outré'