FOOTNOTES:
[1] Fact.
[2] In those days the press-gang was still in force.
[3] At the end of a letter recently received from the Countess occur these words: “Let me congratulate you on the continued success of The Girl’s Own Paper, and the position you have made for it. I still hope to be able to rank among its contributors some day again, and I shall not either forget those early days when all was uncertainty as to how it would succeed.
“Believe me,
“Yours sincerely,
“Ishbel Aberdeen.”
[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text:
Page 350: artifical to artifical—“artificial flowers”.]