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TOTALS. |
It is possible that a union maybe found in which the number of poor are
so few, as to allow of the four orders of poor--the Ordinary, the
Medical, the Casual, and the Unclassified--to be contained in one book;
but in general it would be necessary to separate them and to appropriate
a book to each order; and there are parishes so large, and in which
certain classes of poor abound, as to require separate books for those
particular cases.
[4] Elia
[5] If the reader will refer again to the form of "Relief List," he will
perceive that there are three general divisions, named severally,
ordinary, medical, and casual. These terms were preserved, because they
are well known in actual practice, rather than because they express a
really broad distinction. The ordinary relief list is supposed to
contain all those recipients of relief who are likely to continue
chargeable for a long period. But the distinction attempted to be drawn
between those who may require relief for a long and those who require it
for a short period only, depends upon circumstances too vague and
variable to be of any practical utility. These objections are not
applicable to the generic term "medical."
[6] A tradesman is not a shopkeeper, but a mechanic who is skilled in
his particular branch of industry.
[7] In other words, that he will be condemned to slavery, and employed
on the public works in wheeling a barrow.
[8] The belief in _hard men_, _i.e._ of men whose skins were impervious
to a musket or pistol ball, was extremely prevalent during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. They could be killed only by a silver bullet.
Fitzgerald, the notorious duellist and murderer, in the middle of the
last century, was said to have been a hard man.--See _Thoms' Anecdotes
and Traditions_, printed for the Camden Society, p. 111.
[9] It must be borne in mind that the priests here alluded to are
Danish.
[10] Junker (_pronounced_ Yunker,) the title given to a son of noble
family. Froeken (_dimin. of_ Frue, _madam_, _lady_; Ger. Fraeulein) is the
corresponding title of a young lady of rank.
[11] _Madam_, applied strictly to ladies of rank only.
[12] The Nisse of the Scandinavian nations is, in many respects, the
counterpart of the Scottish Brownie, while, in others, he occasionally
resembles the Devonian and Cornish Pixie and Portune. He is described as
clad in gray, with a pointed red cap. Having once taken up his abode
with a family, it is not easy to dislodge him, as is evident from the
following anecdote:--A man, whose patience was exhausted by the
mischievous pranks of a Nisse that dwelt in his house, resolved on
changing his habitation, and leaving his troublesome guest to himself.
Having packed his last cart-load of chattels, he chanced to go to the
back of his cart, to see whether all was safe, when, to his dismay, the
Nisse popped his head out of a tub, and with a loud laugh, said, "See,
we flit to-day," (_See, idag flytte vi._)--_Thiele, Danske Folkesagn_,
i. p. 134, and _Athenaeum_, No. 991.
There are also ship Nisses, whose functions consist in shadowing out, as
it were, by night all the work that is to be performed the following
day,--to weigh or cast anchor, to hoist or lower the sails, to furl or
reef them--all which operations are forerunners of a storm. For the duty
even of a swabber, he does not consider himself too high, but washes the
deck most delicately clean. Some well-informed persons maintain that
this _spiritus navalis_, or nautical goblin, proves himself of kindred
race with the house or land Nisse by his roguish pranks. Sometimes he
turns the vane, sometimes extinguishes the light in the binnacle,
plagues the ship's dog, and if there chance to be a passenger on board
who cannot bear the sea, the rogue will appear before him with
heart-rending grimaces retching in the bucket. If the ship is doomed to
perish, he jumps overboard in the night, and either enters another
vessel or swims to land.
[13] According to the Germanic nations, the devil has a horse's, not a
cloven foot.
[14] In the original, "Ole Lukoeje," _i.e._, _Olave Shut-eye_, a
personage as well known by name to the children of Denmark, as the
dustman is to those of England.
[15] She was no doubt habited _en Amazone_, as was the fashion in
Denmark about the date to which our story refers. At a much later
period, Matilda (sister of our George III.) Queen of Christian VII. rode
in a garb nearly resembling a man's.
[16] Viz. a fox, in allusion to Mikkel's surname of Foxtail.
[17] Two places of public resort and great beauty in the neighbourhood
of Copenhagen. On St. John's (Hans') eve, the former place is thronged
with the inhabitants of the capital and vicinity, for the purpose of
drinking the waters of a well held in great esteem.
[18] _Reise nach Java, und Ausfluege nach den Inseln Madura und St.
Helena._ Von Dr. EDUARD SELBERG. Oldenburg and Amsterdam: 1846.
[19] _Trade and Travel in the Far East._ London: 1846.
[20] Notes to "Peveril of the Peak."
[21] Notes to "Oliver Newman."
[22] Trial of Charles I. and the Regicides, which I see referred to in
"Oliver Newman," but I have not the book myself.
[23] London _Times_ of that date.
[24] State Trials, ii. 389.
[25] Somers' Tracts, vi. 339.
[26] Carlyle and Clarendon.
[27] Carlyle.
[28] Carlyle.
[29] Clarendon, iii. 590.
[30] Percy's Reliques, 121.
[31] Fasti Oxon. ii. 79.
[32] Letters and Speeches, &c. by Carlyle.
[33] Fasti Oxon. ii. 79.
[34] Carlyle.
[35] Fasti Oxon, ii. p. 79. Anno 1649.
[36] Evelyn's Memoirs, i. 308.
[37] Notes to Peveril of the Peak.
[38] Sir Thomas Herbert's Two Last Years, p. 189.
[39] State Trials, ii. 886.
[40] Lives of the Queens, vol. viii.
[41] Holmes' American Annals.
[42] Isaiah xvi. 3.
[43] Rev. xi. 8.
[44] Rev. xiii. 18.
[45] Holmes' American Annals, _in Ann_. Also, Notes to "Oliver Newman."
[46] _Gatherings from Spain_, by Richard Ford. London, 1846.
_An Overland Journey to Lisbon, &c._, by T. M. Hughes. London, 1847.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.
Superscripted letters are shown in {brackets}.
The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these
letters have been replaced with transliterations.
Due to their width, tables have been split in half.
The first page of this issue is 261.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"deterimental" corrected to "detrimental" (page 285)
"architectue" corrected to "architecture" (page 335)
"appearrance" corrected to "appearance" (page 336
"assocation" corrected to "association" (page 369)
"banches" corrected to "branches" (page 369)
"Frauelein" corrected to "Fraeulein" (page 373)
"triflle" corrected to "trifle" (page 376)
Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in
spelling and hyphenation usage have been retained.