[1] A New England family, to which the poet Whittier was related.
[2] This is one of the few fictitious names used in the story. Judge Lindsey wishes it disguised "for old sake's sake."
[3] Many of the conversations reported in this volume are given from memory, and they are liable to errors of memory in the use of a word or a turn of expression. But they are not liable to error in substance. They are the unadorned truth, clearly recollected.—B. B. L.
[4] Wilbur F. Cannon is now Pure Food Commissioner in Colorado.
[5] Smith is now tax agent in the tramway offices.