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_ FOOTNOTES FOOTNOTES {1} "Mauth" is Manx for dog, I am told. {2} It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others. {3} In the third volume of his essays. {4} "I remember I went into the room where my father's body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling 'Papa,' for I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there."--STEELE, The Tatler , June 6, 1710. {5} Longmans. {6} I like to know what the author got. {7} Salmon roe, I am sorry to say. {8} "Why and Wherefore," Aytoun. {9} Fersitan legendum , "Help Thou." {10} I know, now, who Miriam was and who was the haunter of the Catacombs. But perhaps the people is as well without the knowledge of an old and "ower true tale" that shook a throne. {11} Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can! {12} Edinburgh, 1685. _ |
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