Stanza II, line 1. _Flooring_ = downing (a man). _Flushing_ = delivering a blow right on the mark, and straight from the shoulder. Line 5. _Crossing_ = unfair fighting; shirking. Stanza III, line 5. _Victualling-office_ = the stomach. Line 6. _Smeller and ogles_ = nose and eyes. Line 7. _Bread-basket_ = stomach. Line 8. _In twig_ = in form; ready. _Bobby And His Mary_ [See _ante_ for note on _Universal Songster_]. Stanza I, line 1. _Dyot Street_, see note page 222. Stanza II, line 16. _St. Pulchre's bell_, the great bell of St. Sepulchre's Holborn, close to Newgate, always begins to toll a little before the hour of execution, under the bequest of Richard Dove, who directed that an exhortation should be made to "... prisoners that are within, Who for wickedness and sin are appointed to die, Give ear unto this passing bell." _Poor Luddy_ Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), the author of this song, was an actor and dramatist--an illegitimate son of Charles Dibdin the elder. He claimed to have written nearly 2000 songs. _The Pickpocket's Chaunt_ Eugene François Vidocq was a native of Arras, where his father was a baker. From early associations he fell into courses of excess which led to his flying from the paternal roof. After various, rapid, and unexampled events in the romance of real life, in which he was everything by turns and nothing long, he was liberated from prison, and became the principal and most active agent of police. He was made chief of the Police de Sureté under Messrs. Delavau and Franchet, and continued in that capacity from the year 1810 till 1827, during which period he extirpated the most formidable gangs of ruffians to whom the excesses of the revolution and subsequent events had given full scope for daring robberies and iniquitous excesses. He settled down as a paper manufacturer at St. Mandé near Paris. Of Maginn (1793-1842) it may be said he was, without question, one of the most versatile writers of his time. He is, perhaps, best remembered in connection with the _Noctes Ambrosianæ_, which first appeared in _Blackwood_, and with the idea of which Maginn is generally credited. He was also largely concerned with the inception of _Fraser's_. Maginn's English rendering of Vidocq's famous song first appeared in _Blackwood_ for July 1829. For the benefit of the curious the original is appended. It will be seen that Maginn was very faithful to his copy. En roulant de vergne en vergne [1] Pour apprendre à goupiner, [2] J'ai rencontré la mercandière, [3] Lonfa malura dondaine, Qui du pivois solisait, [4] Lonfa malura dondé. J'ai rencontré la mercandière Qui du pivois solisait; Je lui jaspine en bigorne; [5] Lonfa malura dondaine, Qu'as tu donc à morfiller? [6] Lonfa malura dondé. Je lui jaspine en bigorne; Qu'as tu donc à morfiller? J'ai du chenu pivois sans lance. [7] Lonfa malura dondaine, Et du larton savonné [8] Lonfa malura dondé.