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Footnote 1:
Pack your kit and trek, Ferriera,
Pack your kit and trek.
A long pull, all on one side,
Johnnie with the lame leg.
Footnote 2:
Beaten.
Footnote 3:
Red necks—English soldiers.
Footnote 4:
Remember, the Chinaman generally says “l” for “r.”
Footnote 5:
A kind of sticky sweatmeat.
Footnote 6:
Bordeaux snails are specially large and sweet.
Footnote 7:
They grill pigs’-feet still at St. Menehoulde, not far from Verdun,
better than anywhere else in all France.
Footnote 8:
Gone—to get pâtés of ducks’ liver at Toulouse; fatted poultry at Bourg
in Bresse, on the road to Geneva; and very large chestnuts in sugar at
Carcassonne about forty miles from Toulouse.
Footnote 9:
This would probably be some sort of wild boar ham from Germany.
Footnote 10:
Expensive.
Footnote 11:
Beaten up.
Footnote 12:
Sneer or despise.
Footnote 13:
Brings him to table.
Footnote 14:
Starve.
Footnote 15:
The Pope himself, who depends on his cook for being healthy and
well-fed.
Footnote 16:
Dispute or argument.
Footnote 17:
Men are influenced by their cooks as ships are steered by their
rudders.
Footnote 18:
Never mind.
Footnote 19:
Ithuriel was that Archangel whose spear had the magic property of
showing everyone exactly and truthfully what he was.
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