Note 1 — Chapter I · CHILDHOOD AT MAILLANE

Come tell me, who is dead?— ’Tis John o’ the Pig’s Head. And who his dirge doth sing?— Why, ’tis the Moorish King. And who laughs o’er him now? The partridge doth, I trow. Who makes a lay for him that’s gone?— The mangle with its creaking stone. Who was it that his knell began?— The bottom of the frying-pan. Who wears for him a mourning veil?— The kettle’s sooty tail!