[46] Rev. Charles Hoyle, Vicar of Overton, near Marlborough.
[47] "Killarney," a poem.
[48] Sonnets.
[49] "Exodus," a poem.
[50] Large coloured prints, in most cottages.
[51] The letter said to be written by our Saviour to King Agbarus is seen in many cottages.
[52] Tib, the cat.
[53] The notes of the cuckoo are the only notes, among birds, exactly according to musical scale. The notes are the fifth, and major third, of the diatonic scale.
[54] The "whip-poor-will" is a bird so called in America, from his uttering those distinct sounds, at intervals, among the various wild harmonies of the forest. See Bertram's Travels in America.
[55] In Cornwall, and in other countries remote from the metropolis, it is a popular belief, that they who are to die in the course of the year appear, on the eve of Midsummer, before the church porch. See an exquisite dramatic sketch on this subject, called "The Eve of St Mark," in Blackwood.