heap of mites and
maggots, and full of large avenues for rats and mice to play at
hide-and-seek and make their nests in. Frequent were the admonitions
he had given his maid-servants on this score, and every now and then
he was turning them off; but still the last was the worst, and in
the meanwhile the poor man was the sufferer. At any rate, therefore,
matrimony must turn to his account, though his wife should prove to
be nothing but a creature of the feminine gender, with a tongue in
her head, and ten fingers on her hands, to clear out the papers of
the housemaid, not to mention the convenience of a man's having it
in his power lawfully to beget sons and daughters in his own
house."--_Memoirs of Mago-Pico. Second edition. Edinburgh_, 1761, p.
19.

EDITOR'S NOTES.

[I-A] p. 1. "David M'Pherson's map." In his "Geographical History,"
London, 4to, 1796.

[I-B] p. 11. "Jenny Dods ... at Howgate." Scott admitted to Erskine that
the name of "Dods" was borrowed from this slatternly heroine.

[I-C] p. 33. "He was nae Roman, but only a Cuddie, or Culdee." Some
Scottish Protestants took pride in believing that their Kirk descended
from Culdees, who were not of the Roman Communion. The Culdees have
given rise to a world of dispute, and he would be a bold man who
pretended to understand their exact position. The name seems to be _Cele
De_, "servant [gillie] of God." They were not Columban monks, but fill a
gap between the expulsion of the Columbans by the Picts, and the
Anglicising and Romanising of the Scottish Church by St. Margaret and
her sons. Originally solitary ascetics, they clustered into groups, and,
if we are to believe their supplanters at St. Andrews, the Canons
Regular, they were married men, and used church property for family
profit. Their mass they celebrated with a rite of their own, in their
little church. They were gradually merged in, and overpowered at St.
Andrews, for example, by the Canons Regular, and are last heard of in
prosecuting a claim to elect the Bishop, at the time of Edward the
First's interference with Scottish affairs. The points on which they
differed from Roman practice would probably have seemed very
insignificant to such a theologian as Meg Dods.

[I-D] p. 47. "Fortunio, in the fairy-tale." The gifted companions of
Fortunio, Keen-eye, Keen-ear, and so forth, are very old stock
characters in Maerchen: their first known appearance