FOOTNOTES:
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
1 (return) [ The West-Fleming talks of dogs of either sex invariably as “he.”]
2 (return) [ A cow’s horn fitted with a mouthpiece.]
3 (return) [ An iron pot with a bladder stretched across the top, beaten with sticks, like a drum.]
4 (return) [ Beggar.]
5 (return) [ A legendary figure of a snow-covered bogie, who comes down to the villages at Christmas-time and runs away with the children.]
6 (return) [ The bedroom behind the kitchen or living-room, in the Flemish cottages, is over the cellar; but this cellar is not entirely underground and is lighted by a very low window at the back. Consequently, the floor of the bedroom is a little higher than that of the living-room and is approached by a flight of two or three steps.]
7 (return) [ The Flemish low-wheeled cart drawn by dogs.]
8 (return) [ The West-Flemings brew a beer so extremely strong that it is served in quite small glasses, not more than half the size of an ordinary tumbler.]
9 (return) [ Hob-nailed shoes fastened with straps.]
10 (return) [ The Flemish stove is connected with the chimney by a flat pipe, on which the plates and other utensils are heated. On Sundays, the stove, the pipe and all are blacked and polished with black-lead and turpentine; and it is an old custom of neat house-wives to powder the stove-pipe with white sand from the dunes. The sand is allowed to run through a little opening in the hand in a series of fine wavy lines, forming a delicate pattern on the black pipe.]
11 (return) [ Epsom salts.]
12 (return) [ A corruption of the French allez!