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‘ St James’s Square’—The principal haunt in those days of the
fair Cyprians in modern Athens.
4 Forty-twa ’—A famous Temple of Cloacina, containing forty-
two altars for the numerous worshippers who attended daily
in the Temple.
‘ Gardy loo’—See Winiford Jenkins’ letters in the Tale of
Humphrey Clinker, where the term is fully explained.
‘chronicles of the crafts.’
These chapters were written during the time of the unfortunate
dispute between the calico printer operatives and their employers,
when the former were turned out of their employment, to make
room for men and women who ranked among their numbers a
set of the most worthless and vile that ever crawled upon the face
of this fair creation.
‘JOCK PATERSON AND SORTER JOHNNY,’
And the prose pieces following, were contributions of the
Author, from time to time, to the pages of the ‘ Laird of Logan,
or Wit of the West.’
‘SHONNY CAMMED.’
This rev. gentleman, who held forth not a hundred miles from
Nicholson Street, was so much in the habit of denouncing the acts
of the then government, that he was pulled up by the then ‘ powers
that be.’ He was accordingly sent to Edinburgh, where he had
an interview with the Lord Advocate, supposed to be of a very
amicable as well as of a convincing nature, for he came home a
very changed man—at least in his political views. On the first
Sabbath after his arrival, he gave such a lecture upon the infidel
and wicked nature of Radicalism, as to disgust three-fourths of
his congregation, who left him to preach to almost empty walls.