Chapter IX

_Note 1. Author’s note_.--“Make the old grave-digger a _laudator temporis acti_,--especially as to burial customs.”

_Note 2._ Instead of “written,” as in the text, the author probably meant to write “read.”

_Note 3._ The MS. has “delight,” but “a light” is evidently intended.

_Note 4. Author’s note_.--“He aims a blow, perhaps with his pipe, at the boy, which Ned wards off.”