The badgers
were kept by a certain Jemmy Flowers, who charged sixpence for each
"draw"; Puss was turned out of a bag and chased by dogs, her chance
being to reach and climb a group of trees near the river, known as
the "Brocas Clump." Of the quotations, "a Yorkshireman
hippodamoio" (p. 35) is, I am told, an obiter dictum of Sir Francis
Doyle. "Striving to attain," etc. (p. 33), is taken not quite
correctly from Tennyson's "Timbuctoo." Our crew were "a solemn
company" (p. 57) is probably a reminiscence of "we were a gallant
company" in "The Siege of Corinth." For "'the own armchair' of our
Lyrist's 'Sweet Lady'" Anne'" (p. 161) see the poem, "My own
armchair" in Barry Cornwall's "English Lyrics." "Proud Marie of
Anjou" (p. 96) and "single-sin--" (p. 121), are unintelligible; a
friend once asked Kinglake to explain the former, but received for
answer, "Oh! that is a private thing." It may, however, have been
a pet name for little Marie de Viry, Procter's niece, and the chere
amie of his verse, whom Eothen must have met often at his friend's
house. The St. Simonians of p. 83 were the disciples of Comte de
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