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kill him in the wood, but, by contrivance, he was kidnapped."

Note 3. Author's note.—"They were privately married."

Note 4. Author's note.—"Old descriptive letters, referring to localities as they existed."

Note 5. Author's note.—"There should be symbols and tokens, hinting at the schoolmaster's disappearance, from the first opening of the scene."

Note 1. Author's note.—"They had got up in remarkably good case that morning."

Note 2. Author's note.—"The stranger may be the future master of the Hospital.—Describe the winter day."

Note 3. Author's note.—"Describe him as clerical."

Note 4. Author's note.—"Represent him as a refined, agreeable, genial young man, of frank, kindly, gentlemanly manners."

Note 5. Alternative reading: "A clergyman."

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."