Page 134. _Spinet_. The accent is on the last foot, even when the word is written _spinnet_. Compare the remarkable Liberty which Pamela took with the 137th Psalm. _My Joys and Hopes all overthrown_, _My Heartstrings almost broke_, _Unfit my Mind for Melody_, _Much more to bear a Joke_. _But yet_, _if from my Innocence_ _I_, _even in Thought_, _should slide_, _Then_, _let my fingers quite forget_ _The sweet Spinnet to guide_! _Pamela_, _or Virtue Rewarded_, vol. i., p. 184., 1785. FOOTNOTES. {78} N.B. There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which must not be accepted as autobiographical. {80} These lines do _not_ apply to Miss Annie P. (or Daisy) Miller, and her delightful sisters, _Gades adituræ mecum_, in the pocket edition of Mr. James’s novels, if ever I go to Gades. {105} Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus. {106a} The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun. {106b} Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and “culture-hero” of several Australian tribes. {106c} The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians. {107a} In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren. {107b} Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets. {108a} Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail. For Odin’s feat as a Bird, see _Bragi’s Telling_ in the Younger Edda. {108b} Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, gave Australians their marriage laws. {108c} _Lubra_, a woman; _kobong_, “totem;” or, to please Mr. Max Müller, “otem.” {108d} The Crow was the Hawk’s rival. {130} Lycaon, the first werewolf.